Heart of Palms : My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cornett, Meredith W., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cornett, Meredith W., > 1968-
Peace Corps (U.S.)
Peace Corps (U.S.) > Biography.
Women ecologists.
Rain forest ecology.
Manners and customs.
Ecology.
Americans.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
NATURE > Ecology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Femmes ecologistes > Panamá > Biographies.
Écologie des forêts pluviales > Panamá > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Americans > Panama > Biography.
Women ecologists > Panama > Biography.
Rain forest ecology > Panama > San Vicente de la Tranquilla > History > 20th century.
Rain forest ecology > Panama > History > 20th century.
Panama.
San Vicente de la Tranquilla (Panama) > Biography.
San Vicente de la Tranquilla (Panama) > Social life and customs.
San Vicente de la Tranquilla (Panama) > Environmental conditions.
Panama > Environmental conditions.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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, the slender isthmus that connects two continents and two oceans. In her memoir, Meredith Cornett transports readers to the remote village of Tranquilla, where dugout canoes are the mainstay of daily transportation, life and nature are permeated by witchcraft, and a restful night's sleep may be dist.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (172 pages).
ISBN:9780817387402

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