The House on Via Gombito: Writing by North American Women AbroadMadelon Sprengnether, Calvin William Truesdale For centuries male writers have used travel as a vehicle and metaphor for self-discovery; in this landmark collection 42 women speak of their own transformations through the experience of travel. The varied accounts describe spiritual journeys, ancestral quests, tales of culture shock, comedy, terror, and more. Photographs and illustrations. |
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... Peace Corps Volunteer . - - In a corner , I opened the sealed envelope containing the name of my post - the spot in Morocco where I was going to live and serve for the next two years . I looked ; the name meant nothing . Later , I ...
... Peace Corps Volunteer . - - In a corner , I opened the sealed envelope containing the name of my post - the spot in Morocco where I was going to live and serve for the next two years . I looked ; the name meant nothing . Later , I ...
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... Peace Corps Organization , and there it stayed . The fault , I felt , lay in the lack of preparation for volunteers . Peace Corps officials had never acknowledged the enormous difference in lifestyle and esteem any American woman would ...
... Peace Corps Organization , and there it stayed . The fault , I felt , lay in the lack of preparation for volunteers . Peace Corps officials had never acknowledged the enormous difference in lifestyle and esteem any American woman would ...
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... Peace Corps " official " - the only one I had ever met who seemed to know what went on outside of Washington , D.C. ... Peace Corps Washington why at least the women weren't warned before being posted in Morocco ? " Well , the Peace ...
... Peace Corps " official " - the only one I had ever met who seemed to know what went on outside of Washington , D.C. ... Peace Corps Washington why at least the women weren't warned before being posted in Morocco ? " Well , the Peace ...
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