Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... runners here ; that Dieudonné Lamothe , with whom I ran in the Haitian mountains , was training and turning into a winning competi- tor , with some Caribbean championships to his credit . And the slopes of Kenscoff provide some of the ...
... runners here ; that Dieudonné Lamothe , with whom I ran in the Haitian mountains , was training and turning into a winning competi- tor , with some Caribbean championships to his credit . And the slopes of Kenscoff provide some of the ...
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... runners continue on their pious nine- or eleven- or fifteen - mile rounds . I felt like a happy animal , loping and roaming and chatting with Matt , who was running easy , bare - chested and gleaming . Peasants by the roadside were ...
... runners continue on their pious nine- or eleven- or fifteen - mile rounds . I felt like a happy animal , loping and roaming and chatting with Matt , who was running easy , bare - chested and gleaming . Peasants by the roadside were ...
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... runners . Runners , as a race or nationality , often carry a haunted style , even in America . They are not necessarily happy , but they love that piston thing they do with their legs , that explosive aerobic soma lilt that comes into ...
... runners . Runners , as a race or nationality , often carry a haunted style , even in America . They are not necessarily happy , but they love that piston thing they do with their legs , that explosive aerobic soma lilt that comes into ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
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