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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... tropical night . The entire mobbed city sways under its yellow - gray twilight skies . The vaccins , bamboo reeds , make their hoarse piping and the drums drum and the dancers are taken by the dance . But despite the insistence of the ...
... tropical night . The entire mobbed city sways under its yellow - gray twilight skies . The vaccins , bamboo reeds , make their hoarse piping and the drums drum and the dancers are taken by the dance . But despite the insistence of the ...
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... tropical houses that were both clean lined and playful , using streams for cooling , Haitian artists as artisans , bringing flowers into atriums , constructing overhangs for ventilation and against storms to reduce the need for glass ...
... tropical houses that were both clean lined and playful , using streams for cooling , Haitian artists as artisans , bringing flowers into atriums , constructing overhangs for ventilation and against storms to reduce the need for glass ...
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... tropical diseases . What was called " malig- nant malaria " kept me bedridden for almost two months . My elder daughter , Ann , then four years old , used to help me into the shower and marvel at how a fever could dry me off , without ...
... tropical diseases . What was called " malig- nant malaria " kept me bedridden for almost two months . My elder daughter , Ann , then four years old , used to help me into the shower and marvel at how a fever could dry me off , without ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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