Download or read book South of the Frontera a Peace Corps Memoir written by Lawrence F. Lihosit and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of a Commendation from U.S. Congressman John Garamendi (CA, 10th District) "Humorous, highly entertaining...You are in for an adventure." Michael Schmicker, author of Land of Smiles. "A dose of good medicine." Starley Talbott, author of Lasso the World; a Western Writer's Tales of Folks Around the Globe. "A classic." Craig Carrozzi, author of The Road to El Dorado. "If Kerouac had been a Peace Corps Volunteer in the 1970's, he would have written a book like South of the Frontera." Steve Q. Cannon, RPCV-Honduras Premature middle age escaped us and high adventure called begins the author in this humorous memoir about how Hard-Times became Good-Times. Following a job loss, a worn picture postcard ignites adventures South of the Frontera leading to the Peace Corps. This is a vivid description of Mexico and Central America between 1975 and 1977. From basking in the Sea of Cortes alongside a pelican to learning to dance in Honduras, an original voice rings true with youthful curiosity and down-home wit and insight.
Download or read book Peace Corps Experience Write and Publish Your Memoir written by Lawrence F. Lihosit and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell your Peace Corps story, but first study this book. Robert Klein, Peace Corps Oral History Project, Kennedy Library The ultimate how-to book for former Peace Corps volunteers and staff who have hesitated to write about their own experience. This book explains what a memoir is, how to write, publish and promote.
Download or read book Peace Corps Chronology 1961 2010 written by Lawrence F. Lihosit and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for 2010 Peace Corps Writers Special Publisher Award This is a very impressive book. John Coyne, Editor of Peace Corps Writers and Peace Corps Worldwide A great job! I am astonished at how detailed and thorough this work is. David Searles, author of The Peace Corps Experience: Challenge and Change, 1969-1976 Useful for anyone interested in the Peace Corps, this easy-to-read book includes all notable activities related to Americas most iconic program. It describes the first half century of service during which more than 200,000 Americans volunteered to work in 139 countries. Inspired by JFKs inaugural call- Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country- volunteers from all 50 states traveled to tropical cloud forests, savannahs, prairies, deserts and frigid mountainous steppes to learn a new language and lend a hand.
Download or read book Years on and Other Travel Essays written by Lawrence F. Lihosit and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Moritz Thomsen-like path less traveled, a Pete Hessler-esque possession of language and culture...that best and rarest of ex-pats: the Yankee gone native." Tony D'Souza, author of Whiteman. Where you headed? asked the man in a pick-up. Lihosit should have answered, High adventure. The author of South of the Frontera; A Peace Corps Memoir describes how he hitchhiked along bleak Arizona highways, hacked a path through Honduran mountains in search of water, avoided caiman while riding bulls across flooded Bolivian savannah and grizzlies as he hunted caribou in bush Alaska, ran for his life after getting embroiled in Mexico City politics and more. These are uncommon tales and fascinating reading.
Download or read book Come Sit Next to Me written by Robert O’Quinn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come Sit Next to Me takes the reader on the journey of a lifetime, directly to the ancient Silk Road of Central Asia. Join the author during every stage of preparation, experience every culture shock, and gain a real sense of what isolation can feel like living in a traditional, rural Muslim community. Robert OQuinns style of writing draws the reader into the narrative with the authors descriptive prose and detailed accounts. His job was to find a way to teach English in a mountain village located next to the border of China. The winters were long and brutal, and the cultural challenges were endless, but he would ultimately learn the true essence of Kyrgyz hospitality.
Download or read book Gather the Fruit One by One 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories written by Pat Alter and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take some Inca, Aztec, Maya, and Moche, mix in Spanish, French, English, Dutch and Danish, stir it to the rhythmic beat of Africa and what do you get? A zesty brew, expressed in a callaloo soup of language, food, music, and religion. So much passion, so much sorrow. What seems familiar in the Americas often is not. For Peace Corps Volunteers, there is nothing to do but learn the language, roll up their sleeves, and get busy working alongside strangers who steal their hearts away. These stories take you on overland journeys to the Amazon Basin, into a village in Honduras terrorized by insurgent forces, and to the ball fields of Ecuador for an unusual game of "beisbol."
Download or read book Green Hills and Blue Lagoons written by John Penisten and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reminiscence of life as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Fiji Islands, South Pacific, in 1968-69. These sketches describe the experiences, difficulties, and rewards of earning one's living in a foreign culture where one must learn to speak the language, follow the customs, and adopt the lifestyle of the local people in order to survive. The text relates the adventures of three young Americans, fresh out of college and filled with youthful idealism, and how they came to be on an island called Vanua Levu, the "Big Land," in Fiji. These three young men, with varied backgrounds from different parts of the United States, came together for this one period in their lives. Far from their respective roots, they learned and shared much, about themselves and with others in a communal culture. These stories are true and accurate accounts of real experiences and adventures. They share the successes and failures, the joys and sorrows, the good and bad, as these young Americans break the cultural barriers around them and become immersed in a totally different culture. These stories reflect their dedication and resolve and their adoption and acceptance into the Fijian culture and society into which they were placed. This is a record of what they accomplished and gained under difficult circumstances as U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers in the small island country of Fiji in the South Pacific.
Download or read book Turkish Delight Memoirs of a Peace Corps Volunteer written by Patricia Morgan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to be a Peace Corps Volunteer? Idealism? Adaptability? Perseverance? I thought I had what it took when I joined the Peace Corps in 1964 until I came face to face with the reality of living and teaching in Anatolia, Turkey. From my first experience with Turkish cuisine to my attempts to emulate America recipes, from my first meetings with Turks to my final good-byes, these forty-five short stories highlight the ups and downs of a fresh-out-of-college, know-it-all female Volunteer attempting to find her place in the conservative town of Konya, Turkey. Patricia has lived and worked in Turkey, Italy, and South Korea. She now resides in Iowa, where she shares a house with an assortment of adults, cats, and the occasional eight-year-old. Seeds of Change was Patricia Morgan's first novel and Turkish Delight is her first collection of memoir stories.
Download or read book A Life Inspired written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of autobiographical reminiscences written by about 28 former Peace Corps volumteers.
Download or read book Portrait of a Peace Corps Gringo written by Paul Arfin and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of a Peace Corps Gringo is about an early 1960s Peace Corpsman in Colombia, South America. The book traces his growing social consciousness, and how PeaceCorps dramatically changed his life
Download or read book Into the Backlands written by Kenneth E. Dugan Fliés and published by Lost Lake Folk Art. This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What began as an adventure of a lifetime for 19-year-old Ken Flies when he joined Peace Corps and went to the Backlands of Brazil in 1961, turned into a lifetime of adventure.
Download or read book The Peace Corps in South America written by Fernando Purcell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, twenty-thousand young Americans landed in South America to serve as Peace Corps volunteers. The program was hailed by President John F. Kennedy and by volunteers themselves as an exceptional initiative to end global poverty. In practice, it was another front for fighting the Cold War and promoting American interests in the Global South. This book examines how this ideological project played out on the ground as volunteers encountered a range of local actors and agencies engaged in anti-poverty efforts of their own. As they negotiated the complexities of community intervention, these volunteers faced conflicts and frustrations, struggled to adapt, and gradually transformed the Peace Corps of the 1960s into a truly global, decentralized institution. Drawing on letters, diaries, reports, and newsletters created by volunteers themselves, Fernando Purcell shows how their experiences offer an invaluable perspective on local manifestations of the global Cold War.
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.
Download or read book Letters From Iran written by Arlene Elle Gray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having a daughter serving in the Peace Corps, prompted me to publish, Letters from Iran, written forty years ago. The experiences of mine remain relevant today. The complex world with its problems is much like the situation forty years ago. These letters express the adjustment from being a strange foreigner, to becoming a beloved friend within the sphere of the friends, neighbors and acquaintances made while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Babol, Iran from 1970-1972. I am now the age my parents were when these letters were written. I am facing retirement and aging and feel gratitude for the example my parents gave me of living vibrantly into old age. Both Mom and Dad lived into their nineties, proof that an active lifestyle maintains quality of life. Living for twenty five months in Iran changed my life, changed my attitudes about foreigners and deepened my philosophy that people are basically good. Learning the language, the customs, living among the people made this possible. I am deeply grateful to the friends mentioned in these letters. Contact with the Iranian families was lost within a year. Desire to return for a visit to Iran lingers in my heart. Christmas letters have kept me in touch with the Collins family. My sisters and I remain close. I married David Gray six weeks after returning to the States on furlough. We are blessed with four children; Mark Irving, Stephanie Ann, Brian Leroy and Timothy Alan. Our home is in Bismarck, North Dakota.
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
Download or read book To the Far Side of Planet Earth written by Jim McConkey and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An idealist sets out to save the world and barely manages to save himself. His Peace Corps mission transmutes into a quest for the Truth and ends with an excursion into insanity. India's earth-goddess mythology unravels his American, sky-god belief system. It doesn't matter whether we believe our systems or not, they inform our outlooks regardless. Nothing says it better than this tale. The author began as an unbeliever, and was undone by themes from his own religious tradition anyway." --P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book While I was Out written by Jerry Redfield and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Peace Corps Volunteer arrives for his first assignment in a remote little pueblo high in the Ecuadorian Andes. On his first night there, the pueblo's only policeman is shot and then transported down the mountain on a stretcher tied to the back of a donkey. So begins the narrative of Jerry Redfield as he shares this account of his joys and challenges as he engages in school construction and community development efforts in Ecuador in the early days of the Peace Corps (1963-1965). Based on his own detailed journal and correspondence sent home, he tells the story of what attracted him to the Corps; his initial training; the people he met; and the many frustrations of dealing with a new culture, customs, modes of transportation and bureaucratic delays. Timely inserts in the book provide a chronology of major political and cultural events that occurred in the United States while he was out and their impact on him and the country upon his return.
