Books involving Africa & Peace Corps: |
Mango Elephants in the Sun, by Susanna Herrera.
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Takes place in Northern Cameroon (West Africa). It’s fun, funny, poignant, insightful, very enjoyable. |
The Ponds of Kalambayi, by Mike Tidwell.
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(Zaire) |
Whiteman, by Tony D’Souza.
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(Cote d’Ivoire) |
Mating, by Norman Rush.
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(Botswana) |
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town, by Paul Theroux. |
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha, by Sarah Erdman.
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(Cote d’Ivoire) |
Power Lines, by Jason Carter.
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(S. Africa, Swaziland) |
Monique & the Mango Rains, by Kris Holloway.
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(Cote d’Ivoire) |
Books involving China & Peace Corps:
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Rivertown, by Peter Hessler.
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Books dealing with Burma (Myanmar:
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From the Land of Green Ghosts, by Pascal Khoo Thwe.
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The Trouser People, by Andrew Marshall.
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Finding George Orwell in Burma, by Emma Larkin.
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(a pen name, I think) |
Land of Jade, by Bertil Lintner.
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(he has written at least one more good one) |
Living Silence. by Christina Fink.
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Book about travel in Laos:
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One Foot in Laos, by Dervla Murphy.
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(2001 trip when 60 yrs old, has many other travel adventure books also, but this is the only one I’ve read so far) |
Other recommended reading:
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| Man’s Searching for Meaning, Victor Frankl |
| Authentic Happiness, Martin Seligman |
| The Art of Happiness, Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler |
| The Practice of Poetry, Behn & Twichell, ed. |
| No Man’s Land (V.N.), a diary of a Vietnamese soldier |
| Flags of our Fathers, James Bradley |
| Korean Endgame, Harrison, S. S. |
| Please, Mr. Einstein, Carriere, Jean-Claude |
| The Echo Maker, Powers, Richard |
| Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent, Haupte, Lynda Lynn |
| Radical Hope, Lear, Jonathan |
| Sky Burial, Xinran |
| The Good Women of China, Xinran |
| A Long Way Gone, Beah, Ishmael |
| Ghost Wars, Steve Coll |
| Down Under, Bill Bryson |
| The Zero, Jess Walter |
| Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
| Snow, Pamuk, Orhan |
| Links, Nuruddin Farah |
| Plum Wine, Angela Davis-Gardner |
| Siam Mapped, Thongchai Winichakul |
| The King Never Smiles, Paul Handley |
| War Trash, Ha, Jin |
| Disco for the Departed, Colin Cotteril |
| While Europe Slept, Bruce Bawer |
| See No Evil, Robert Baer |
| Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut |
| Blow the House Down, Robert Baer |
| Knots, Nuruddin Farah |
| Nam-o-Rama, Phillip Jennings |
| A Case of Two Cities, Qiu Xiaolong |
| Death of a Red Heroine, Qiu Xiaolong |
| Rules for Old Men Waiting, Peter Pouncey |
| When the Rivers Run Dry, Fred Pearce |
| A long Way Gone (Memoirs of a Boy Soldier), Ishmael Beah |
| Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn |
| The Ugly American, Wm. Lederer & Eugene Burdick |
| The Secret History of the American Empire, John Perkins |
| Dark Ages America, Morris Berman |
| Lone Survivor, Luttrell, Marcus |
| Empress, Shan Sa |
| Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl |
| The Messenger, Daniel Silva |
| Terrorisr, Updike, John |
| Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire, Rafe Esquith |
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