Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voluntarism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Peace Corps, the Great Adventure
Author: PEACE CORPS, THE GREAT ADVENTURE.
Author: A Life Inspired
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Contains a collection of autobiographical reminiscences written by about 28 former Peace Corps volumteers.
Peace Corps, the Great Adventure
Author: Peace Corps
Author: Afghanistan Photographs 1971-1972
Author: Adrian PanaroPublisher:
ISBN: 9781734720303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1971, Arthur Panaro joined the Peace Corps and was posted to Kabul, Afghanistan, to teach English at the University there. A year later, he was joined by his brother Adrian and the two set off to explore the regions surrounding Kabul and beyond. In the process, they shared a camera to record their impressions of the land and its people. This book documents their journey in photographs and essays.
Chai Budesh? Anyone for Tea?: A Peace Corps Memoir of Turkmenistan
Author: Joan HeronPublisher: PublishAmerica
ISBN: 1456045822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
She was a sixty-two-year-old California grandmother, retired program director and college professor when she joined the Peace Corps. Within months, Joan Heron found herself in Turkmenistan, a small, impoverished country born out of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Using meager resources, a beginner’s grasp of the Russian language, tremendous trust in friendship and a can-do will, Ms. Heron embarks on a two-year adventure in an alien, male chauvinist, often obstructionist environment. Her compelling true story, told with humor and immense compassion for the people and their plight, reaches across borders, cultures and politics to illuminate the strength and riches of the human spirit.
Living Poor; a Peace Corps Chronicle
Author: Moritz ThomsenPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295969282
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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
Unofficial Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook
Author: Travis HellstromPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557570980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Voices from the Peace Corps
Author: Angene Hopkins WilsonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813129753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Based on more than one hundred oral history interviews, [this title] follows the the experiences of Kentuckians who chose to live and work in other countries around the world, fostering close, lasting relationships with the people they served. -- jacket.