Tarnished Ivory

Reflections on Peace Corps and Beyond

• Author(s): Peter Bourque,
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
• Pages: 223
• ISBN_10: 1462877613
  ISBN_13: 9781462877614
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Africa / General , Political Science / International Relations / General , Biography & Autobiography / General , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Travel / Africa / West ,

Description:... As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ivory Coast (1973-75) and a Peace Corps trainer in Mali (1986), Peter Bourque kept a personal journal and wrote over 55 letters back to the States. In them, he described the satisfactions and frustrations of living, working and traveling in West Africa as well as his reactions to the people he encountered—Ivorian, French, Malian and American. Decades later, he reflects and elaborates on these writings with current-day observations and candid essays about idealism, world poverty, the Peace Corps, the French, and losing his religion.