Ponds Of Kalambayi

Author : Mike Tidwell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762777044
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ponds of Kalambayi written by Mike Tidwell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovers of fine travel and adventure writing will savor Mike Tidwell’s richly acclaimed narrative of his days as a Peace Corps volunteer. His task was to help people in the remote corners of Zaire raise tilapia in ponds they would dig themselves, with muscle power alone. This book—with a new introduction by the author—is a masterful account of culture clash, generosity of spirit, and true grit. It is a must-read for anyone with aspirations to “change the world.”

Author : Moritz Thomsen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295969282
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Poor; a Peace Corps Chronicle written by Moritz Thomsen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation--including his own--and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have madeLiving Poora classic. "Hilariously funny at times, grimly sad at others and elavened with perceptive insights into the ways of the people and with breathtaking descriptions of the Ecuadorian landscape."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Author : Mike Tidwell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307424928
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bayou Farewell written by Mike Tidwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself. As award-winning travel writer Mike Tidwell journeys through the bayou, he introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman, the Houma Indians, and the rich cultural history that makes it unlike any other place in the world. But seeing the skeletons of oak trees killed by the salinity of the groundwater, and whole cemeteries sinking into swampland and out of sight, Tidwell also explains why each introduction may be a farewell—as the storied Louisiana coast steadily erodes into the Gulf of Mexico. Part travelogue, part environmental exposé, Bayou Farewell is the richly evocative chronicle of the author's travels through a world that is vanishing before our eyes.

Author : Peace Corps Office of World Wise Schools
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160815096
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Field written by Peace Corps Office of World Wise Schools and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication "Voices From the Field" contains personal essays written by returned Peace Corps Volunteers, accompanied by standards-based language arts lesson plans and workshops that Stengthen students' reading comprehension and writing skills. Engage and inspire students to respond to the text and create original narratives Broaden students' perspectives on the world and themselves.

Author : Mike Tidwell
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585743407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazon Stranger written by Mike Tidwell and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man obsessed with the Ecuadorian jungle and desperate to save it and its people chronicles the struggle of the Cofan people against Big Oil.

Author : Sarah Erdman
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466850051
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Hills to Nambonkaha written by Sarah Erdman and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of a resilient African village, ruled until recently by magic and tradition, now facing modern problems and responding, often triumphantly, to change When Sarah Erdman, a Peace Corps volunteer, arrived in Nambonkaha, she became the first Caucasian to venture there since the French colonialists. But even though she was thousands of miles away from the United States, completely on her own in this tiny village in the West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, she did not feel like a stranger for long. As her vivid narrative unfolds, Erdman draws us into the changing world of the village that became her home. Here is a place where electricity is expected but never arrives, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women grinding corn with pestles rings out in the mornings like church bells. Rare rains provoke bathing in the streets and the most coveted fashion trend is fabric with illustrations of Western cell phones. Yet Nambonkaha is also a place where AIDS threatens and poverty is constant, where women suffer the indignities of patriarchal customs, where children work like adults while still managing to dream. Lyrical and topical, Erdman's beautiful debut captures the astonishing spirit of an unforgettable community.

Author : Mike Tidwell
Publisher : Prima Lifestyles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the White House written by Mike Tidwell and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive account of life in Washington, D.C.--the cruelty of poverty, the desperation in the streets, and the often heroic struggle against the painful and tragic addiction to crack cocaine--written in the tradition of bestsellers There Are No Children Here and Savage Inequalities.

Author : Stanley Meisler
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807050512
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the World Calls written by Stanley Meisler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps’s first fifty years. Revelatory and candid, journalist Stanley Meisler’s engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers’ unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. In the years since, in spite of setbacks, the ethos of the Peace Corps has endured, largely due to the perseverance of the 200,000 Volunteers themselves, whose shared commitment to effect positive global change has been a constant in one of our most complex—and valued—institutions.

Author : Peter Hulme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521786522
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing written by Peter Hulme and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Alvin J. Hower
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489727566
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Greater Service written by Alvin J. Hower and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 1, 2021, Peace Corps turns sixty. Its mission—to teach a skill and to spread the Peace Corps brand of goodwill around the world—still resonates. In No Greater Service, author Alvin J. Hower highlights its relevance yesterday, today, and the years to come. This memoir offers a stirring, personal, vivid, and action-packed account of a Peace Corps volunteer’s remarkable life in the underserved areas of the southern Philippines. With curiosity, empathy, and wry humor, Hower creates a distinct Peace Corps photo memoir. An avid photographer, he produced more than 5,000 images of everyday people and the awe-inspiring beauty of a nation of 7,641 islands. He was a teacher and social worker in General Santos City, and a management consultant for a mission school in the remote mountains of Lake Sebu, Surallah, working and living with the indigenous T’boli people featured in the August 1971 National Geographic Magazine. No Greater Service also serves as a history of his host country, providing information about its complex customs and traditions as well as the notable stories of Filipinos he met and their fascinating updates fifty years later. At times hilarious, others sad and grim, it also shares a love story of his romantic alliance with a Filipina girl.