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Even the Smallest Crab Has Teeth : Volume Four: Asia and the Pacific
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albritton, Jane.
- Series:
- Peace Corps at 50
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asia--Description and travel--Anecdotes.
- Pacific Area--Description and travel--Anecdotes.
- Peace Corps (U.S.)--Asia--Anecdotes.
- Peace Corps (U.S.)--Pacific Area--Anecdotes.
- Volunteers--Asia--Anecdotes.
- Volunteers--Pacific Area--Anecdotes.
- Volunteers.
- Asia.
- Pacific Area.
- Peace Corps (U.S.).
- Local Subjects:
- Asia--Description and travel--Anecdotes.
- Pacific Area--Description and travel--Anecdotes.
- Peace Corps (U.S.)--Asia--Anecdotes.
- Peace Corps (U.S.)--Pacific Area--Anecdotes.
- Volunteers--Asia--Anecdotes.
- Volunteers--Pacific Area--Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (446 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Even the Smallest Crab Has Teeth
- Peace Corps @ 50.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Travelers' Tales, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From land-locked Afghanistan to the smallest of islands in the far reaches of the Pacific Ocean, stories by peace Corps Volunteers from this region come from (mostly) Hindu India1,269,210 square miles worth of democracy patched together from princely statesConfucian Korea, Muslim Indonesia and Buddhist Thailand. Imagine delivering a babywith the help of the handy Peace Corps first aid kiton a rust bucket of a passenger ship in the Pacific or practicing agriculture with armed Pathan farmers in the Pashtun region of Pakistan. How about trekking into the far reaches of Afghanistan to inoculate women and children for small pox, or returning 25 years later to your school in India to find that, yes, your students do remember you? These stories say. I Was There.".
- Contents:
- Series Preface; Foreword: Thirty Days That Built the Peace Corps; Introduction; PART I: ON OUR WAY... AND BACK AGAIN; Bound for the Philippines; Memories from a Battered Box; Back to School; God, President Kennedy, and Me; Far Away Places; Visits with the Veterans; Stop, Pig! Drop the Flip-Flop!; Return to the Land of the Morning Calm; A Letter to Sri Padmanabham; The Fijian Father; Mending Tarawa; Second Chances; PART II: WHY ARE WE HERE?; Of Love and Language; An Indian Bus Journey; Sloslo Nomo; Families; Taking Out Smallpox; Earstaches and a Message from Chiang Kai-Shek
- The Great Upolu Rental Car AdventureDigging for Fish; Thanks to the Turkeys; Willie and the Pathans; Durga Sadhu; The Trick of the Megapode Egg; Snow in Sawankhaloke; PART III: GETTING THROUGH THE DAYS; The Namesake; The Archeological Map; A Thai Interpretation of Hemingway's "The Killers"; The Cultural Palace; Amrikans Drink Their Water Hot; A Day in My Life; Living in the Land of Morning Calm; A Non-Matrix Spouse; Snapshots from the Graveyard of Empires; Planes, Trains, and Bullock Carts; Of Girls and Dogs and Cats; Night Passages; Now the Eyes of My Eyes are Opened; A Spillway for Nong Bua
- Chasing Gulls, Chasing DreamsPART IV: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS; A Loss of Innocence; The Mosquito Bar; At the Foot of Mount Yasur; Handsin's Story; The Boarding House; Parmesan and Politics; The Week of the Jackal; A Different Kind of House Guest; The River at My Door; Foreigner! Forever; A Latex Glove; Zulia Tells a Funny Story; Her American Sister; PART V: SUSTAINABLE PEACE; And the Light in Their Eyes Would Begin to Die; Acknowledgements; About the Editor
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781609520502
- 1609520505
- OCLC:
- 863821595
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