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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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