New books by Peace Corps writers — December, 2017

To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com — Click on the book cover, the bold book title, or the publishing format you would like — and Peace Corps Worldwide, an Amazon Associate, will receive a small remittance from your purchase that will help support the site and the annual Peace Corps Writers awards.

We are now including a one-sentence description — provided by the author — for the books listed here in hopes of encouraging readers  1) to order the book and 2) to volunteer to review it. See a book you’d like to review for Peace Corps Worldwide? Send a note to peacecorpsworldwide@gmail.com, and we’ll send you a copy along with a few instructions.

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Dusty Land: Stories of Two Teachers in the Kalahari
John Ashford (Botswana 1990–92)
Peace Corps Writers
December, 2017
260 pages
$13.00 (paperback)

Although theses stories took place in the ’90s, they have a timelessness that sheds light onto our current times and the struggle to better understand our fellow human beings in spite of our varied backgrounds and beliefs.

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Americruise
(Travel) Second edition
Lawrence F. Lihosit (Honduras 1975–77)
Self published
September 2017
108 pages
$13.95 (paperback)

Travel with the author, his wife and sister-in-law on a road trip — crossing America west to east and returning from east to west via Canada — as they run on empty for the duration, their struggles offering a unique vision.

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The Toughest Job I Ever Loved: A Peace Corps Memoir
Jonathon  Shacat (Gabon 1998–2000)
Self published
October 2017
181 pages
$9.99 (paperback), $4.99 (Kindle)

Jonathon Shacat goes to Gabon, Africa, to teach villagers how to raise fish and hopes to make a big difference in their lives, but he learns that change happens incrementally and one person at a time, and he ends up realizing he is the one who changes the most.

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