The Barrios of Manta: A Personal Account of the Peace Corps in Ecuador
by Brooks, Rhoda and Brooks, Earl
- Used
- first
- Condition
- near fine: sharp, bright, text clean, top stain text block, binding tight/very good: very slight chipping and age wear, NOT price clipped ($5.95)
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New American Library, 1965. first edition. hardcover. near fine: sharp, bright, text clean, top stain text block, binding tight/very good: very slight chipping and age wear, NOT price clipped ($5.95). Octavo 366pp. stated first printing. From front flap: "In August 1962, Earle and Rhoda Brooks--a young sales engineer and his schoolteacher wife--left home and friends in Illinois to serve as members of the Peace Corps in Manta, Ecuador. This book is an account of their life in the Peace Corps. The first book ever written by Peace Corps volunteers, it is a revealing chronicle of personal involvement, of people from alien cultures learning to known one another on the level of their common humanity." #00271.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 263
- Title
- The Barrios of Manta
- Author
- Brooks, Rhoda and Brooks, Earl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine: sharp, bright, text clean, top stain text block, binding tight
- Jacket Condition
- very good: very slight chipping and age wear, NOT price clipped ($5.95)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- New American Library
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- travel, memoir, peace corps, first edition
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