The Ponds of Kalambayi
Author: Mike Tidwell
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author's two years in a remote tribal chiefdom in central Zaire.
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Ponds of Kalambayi
Author: Mike Tidwell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011-10-18
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0762777044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLovers 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.”
Bayou Farewell
Author: Mike Tidwell
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0307424928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Voices from the Field
Author: Peace Corps Office of World Wise Schools
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2008-09
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780160815096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha
Author: Sarah Erdman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1466850051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
When the World Calls
Author: Stanley Meisler
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2012-02-07
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0807050512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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.
No Greater Service
Author: Alvin J. Hower
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 1489727566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarch 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.
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
Author: Peter Hulme
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-11-21
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1107494443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six focusing on geographical areas of particular interest - Arabia, the Amazon, Tahiti, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; and three final chapters analysing some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this enigmatic and influential genre of writing. Several invaluable tools are also provided, including an extensive list of further reading, and a detailed five-hundred year chronology listing important events and publications. This volume will be of interest to teachers and students alike.
Mango Elephants in the Sun
Author: Susana Herrera
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2000-08-08
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0834800039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the Peace Corps sends Susana Herrera to teach English in northern Cameroon, she yearns to embrace her adopted village and its people, to drink deep from the spirit of Mother Africa—and to forget a bitter childhood and painful past. To the villagers, however, she’s a rich American tourist, a nasara (white person) who has never known pain or want. They stare at her in silence. The children giggle and run away. At first her only confidant is a miraculously communicative lizard. Susana fights back with every ounce of heart and humor she possesses, and slowly begins to make a difference. She ventures out to the village well and learns to carry water on her head. In a classroom crowded to suffocation she finds a way to discipline her students without resorting to the beatings they are used to. She makes ice cream in the scorching heat, and learns how to plant millet and kill chickens. She laughs with the villagers, cries with them, works and prays with them, heals and is helped by them. Village life is hard but magical. Poverty is rampant—yet people sing and share what little they have. The termites that chew up her bed like morning cereal are fried and eaten in their turn ("bite-sized and crunchy like Doritos"). Nobody knows what tomorrow may bring, but even the morning greetings impart a purer sense of being in the moment. Gradually, Susana and the village become part of each other. They will never be the same again.
Amazon Stranger
Author: Mike Tidwell
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2001-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781585743407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne man obsessed with the Ecuadorian jungle and desperate to save it and its people chronicles the struggle of the Cofan people against Big Oil.
