- Social life and customs, Description and travel, Zombiism, Bizango (Cult)
A Harvard scientist's astonishing journey into the secret societies of Haitian voodoo, zombis, and magic.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Wade Davis
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Time Warner International, Simon and Schuster, Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780684839295
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First sentence
“MY FIRST MEETING with the man who would send me on my quest for the Haitian poison occurred on a damp miserable winter's day in late February 1974.”
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