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Herz der Palmen: Mein Friedenskorps Jahre in Ruhe von Meredith W. Cornett (Engli-
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- Artikelzustand
- ISBN-13
- 9780817318185
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- ISBN
- 9780817318185
- Book Title
- Heart of Palms : My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Political Science
- Topic
- Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Personal Memoirs, International Relations / General, Ecology
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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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 disturbed by a raiding phalanx of army ants. Cornett is sent to help counter the rapid deforestation that is destroying the ecosystem and livelihoods of the Panama Canal watershed region. Her first chapters chronicle her arrival and struggles not only with the social issues of language, loneliness, and insecurity, but also with the tragicomic basics of mastering open-fire cookery and intrusions by insects and poisonous snakes. As she grows to understand the region and its people, her keen eye discerns the overwhelming scope of her task. Unable to plant trees faster than they are lost, she writes with moving clarity about her sense of powerlessness. Combating deforestation leads Cornett into an equally fierce battle against her own feelings of fear and isolation. Her journey to Panama becomes a parallel journey into herself. In this way, Heart of Palms is much more than a record of her Peace Corps service; it is also a moving environmental coming-of-age story and nuanced meditation on one village?s relationship to nature. When she returns home two years later, Cornett brings with her both skills and experience and a remarkable, newfound sense of confidence and mission. Writing with rueful, self-deprecating humor, Cornett lets us ride along with her on a wave of naïve optimism, a wave that breaks not only on fear and intimidation, but also on tedium and isolation. Heart of Palms offers a bracing alternative to the romantic idealism common to Peace Corps memoirs and will be valued as a welcome addition to writing about the Peace Corps and environmental service.
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University of Alabama Press
ISBN-10
0817318186
ISBN-13
9780817318185
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Book Title
Heart of Palms : My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Personal Memoirs, International Relations / General, Ecology
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Political Science
Number of Pages
176 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
0 Oz
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Qh108.P3c67 2014
Grade from
Sixth Grade
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Edition Number
2
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Heart of Palms is a vivid and warm portrait of a community inside a‘paper park' in Panama. The best—perhaps the only—way to fully understand the complexities of conservation is by telling stories about people and the land they live on. This book is both a detailed narrative about one village's relationships to nature, to work, and to each other and a sweet coming-of-age memoir. Cornett's youthful earnestness and energy come through clearly, as do her hard-won insights about what it means to reforest a landscape where people are eating, living, dying, feuding, making up, and having quinceañera parties." —Emma Maris, author of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, "Written with candor, wit, and descriptive insight, 'Heart of Palms: My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla' is a very highly recommended read and would make an enduringly popular addition to both academic and community library American Biography & Memoir collections." —Midwest Book Review, " Heart of Palms is a vivid and warm portrait of a community inside a'paper park' in Panama. The best--perhaps the only--way to fully understand the complexities of conservation is by telling stories about people and the land they live on. This book is both a detailed narrative about one village's relationships to nature, to work, and to each other and a sweet coming-of-age memoir. Cornett's youthful earnestness and energy come through clearly, as do her hard-won insights about what it means to reforest a landscape where people are eating, living, dying, feuding, making up, and having quinceañera parties." --Emma Maris, author of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, " Heart of Palms is a beautiful story brimming with hope--but hope that remains tantalizingly out of reach. . . . Expecting a fairy-tale assignment, Meredith's new world--at times wondrous and at times frightening--slowly unravels into complications as her myopia recedes and she begins to fully see the people, politics, and heartbeat of this little place. It would be easy to paper over these setbacks and focus on adventure and observations, but this is a book not about how we want the world to be but how it really is. Courageous and unapologetic, Heart of Palms achieves its promise of hope in illuminating a simple but paradoxical truth: beautiful places are worth saving from people, but nothing can truly be saved without people." --M. Sanjayan, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy and science and environmental contributor for CBS News, Heart of Palms is a beautiful story brimming with hope—but hope that remains tantalizingly out of reach. . . . Expecting a fairy-tale assignment, Meredith's new world—at times wondrous and at times frightening—slowly unravels into complications as her myopia recedes and she begins to fully see the people, politics, and heartbeat of this little place. It would be easy to paper over these setbacks and focus on adventure and observations, but this is a book not about how we want the world to be but how it really is. Courageous and unapologetic, Heart of Palms achieves its promise of hope in illuminating a simple but paradoxical truth: beautiful places are worth saving from people, but nothing can truly be saved without people."—M. Sanjayan, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy and science and environmental contributor for CBS News , Heart of Palms is a vivid and warm portrait of a community inside a#145;paper park' in Panama. The best—perhaps the only—way to fully understand the complexities of conservation is by telling stories about people and the land they live on. This book is both a detailed narrative about one village's relationships to nature, to work, and to each other and a sweet coming-of-age memoir. Cornett's youthful earnestness and energy come through clearly, as do her hard-won insights about what it means to reforest a landscape where people are eating, living, dying, feuding, making up, and having quinceañera parties." — Emma Maris, author of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, Heart of Palms is a beautiful story brimming with hope—but hope that remains tantalizingly out of reach. . . . Expecting a fairy-tale assignment, Meredith's new world—at times wondrous and at times frightening—slowly unravels into complications as her myopia recedes and she begins to fully see the people, politics, and heartbeat of this little place. It would be easy to paper over these setbacks and focus on adventure and observations, but this is a book not about how we want the world to be but how it really is. Courageous and unapologetic, Heart of Palms achieves its promise of hope in illuminating a simple but paradoxical truth: beautiful places are worth saving from people, but nothing can truly be saved without people." — M. Sanjayan, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy and science and environmental contributor for CBS News, "Written with candor, wit, and descriptive insight, 'Heart of Palms: My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla' is a very highly recommended read and would make an enduringly popular addition to both academic and community library American Biography & Memoir collections." --Midwest Book Review, " Heart of Palms is a beautiful story brimming with hope--but hope that remains tantalizingly out of reach. . . . Expecting a fairy-tale assignment, Meredith's new world--at times wondrous and at times frightening--slowly unravels into complications as her myopia recedes and she begins to fully see the people, politics, and heartbeat of this little place. It would be easy to paper over these setbacks and focus on adventure and observations, but this is a book not about how we want the world to be but how it really is. Courageous and unapologetic, Heart of Palms achieves its promise of hope in illuminating a simple but paradoxical truth: beautiful places are worth saving from people, but nothing can truly be saved without people."--M. Sanjayan, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy and science and environmental contributor for CBS News , "Written with candor, wit, and descriptive insight, 'Heart of Palms: My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla' is a very highly recommended read and would make an enduringly popular addition to both academic and community library American Biography Memoir collections." --Midwest Book Review, Heart of Palms is a beautiful story brimming with hope—but hope that remains tantalizingly out of reach. . . . Expecting a fairy-tale assignment, Meredith's new world—at times wondrous and at times frightening—slowly unravels into complications as her myopia recedes and she begins to fully see the people, politics, and heartbeat of this little place. It would be easy to paper over these setbacks and focus on adventure and observations, but this is a book not about how we want the world to be but how it really is. Courageous and unapologetic, Heart of Palms achieves its promise of hope in illuminating a simple but paradoxical truth: beautiful places are worth saving from people, but nothing can truly be saved without people." —M. Sanjayan, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy and science and environmental contributor for CBS News
Table of Content
Foreword by Florence Reed Acknowledgments Plant Species Mentioned in the Text Introduction Part I. Seed (Germination): July-December 1991 Chapter 1. Armando Chapter 2. Plátano Chapter 3. Papaya Chapter 4. Teca Chapter 5. Exploración Chapter 6. Agua Chapter 7. Posadas Part II. Seedling (Taking Root): January-June 1992 Chapter 8. Brujería Chapter 9. Limón Chapter 10. Todo el Mundo Chapter 11. Acacia Chapter 12. Hormigas Chapter 13. Palmas Part III. Sapling (Establishment): July-December 1992 Chapter 14. Recursos Naturales Chapter 15. Donde el Gringo Chapter 16. La Operación Chapter 17. Victor Venenoso Chapter 18. Salud Chapter 19. Leucaena Chapter 20. Boa Part IV. Tree (Harvest): January-June 1993 Chapter 21. Demonstración Chapter 22. Almejas Chapter 23. Quinceañera Chapter 24. Lorena Chapter 25. Miel Chapter 26. Bosque Chapter 27. Despedida Epilogue Resources Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2013-029836
Dewey Decimal
577.34097287
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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