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Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle by Moritz Thomsen

Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle

Moritz Thomsen

280 pages

University of Washington Press

May 1990

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At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation -- including his own -- and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have made Living Poor a classic.

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