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Heart of palms : my Peace Corps years in Tranquilla /
Heart of Palms is a clear-eyed memoir of Peace Corps service in the rural Panamanian village of Tranquilla through the eyes of a young American woman trained as a community forester. In the storied fifty-year history of the US Peace Corps, Heart of Palms is the first Peace Corps memoir set in Panama...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Heart of palms : |b my Peace Corps years in Tranquilla / |c Meredith W. Cornett ; foreword by Florence Reed. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Plant species mentioned in the text -- Introduction -- Part I. Seed (germination): July-December 1991 -- Armando -- Platano -- Papaya -- Teca -- Exploracion -- Agua -- Posadas -- Part II. Seedling (taking root): January-June 1992 -- Brujeria -- Limon -- Todo el mundo -- Acacia -- Hormigas -- Palmas -- Part III. Sapling (establishment): July-December 1992 -- Recursos naturales -- Donde el gringo -- La operacion -- Victor Venenoso -- Salud -- Leucaena -- Boa -- Part IV. Tree (harvest): January-June 1993 -- Demonstracion -- Almejas -- Quinceanera -- Lorena -- Miel -- Bosque -- Despedida -- Epilogue. | |
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