You can find used copies of The Zinzin Road at Bibliofind.com for prices ranging from $3 to $50.

Okay, let’s make it a little tougher.
Who wrote this paragraph from a Peace Corps book?

They took us in the Land Rover, Mike and me, with Kim Buck driving. We had planned to leave that morning, as it was a good four hours’ drive, although it was only about sixty miles from Mbeya. But it had taken us the whole morning just to buy our supplies — tins of paraffin oil, as there was no electricity, they had said, packets of tinned meat and vegetables and fruit and bread, as they weren’t exactly sure what the food situation would be like down there, things for the house like chairs and paint and brushes and nails, a hammer, ropes, string, soap, a basin, a bucket — all things I would never have thought to buy but that Mike said were necessary. And then trying to fit it all into the Land Rover, with Kim Buck muttering we were going to be late as hell, giving orders which neither of us could understand, to place this inside the door here, no, not there, and that underneath this and this on top of that . . .

In the July issue of PeaceCorpsWriters.org
A Writer Writes
One pleasure of receiving email is that from time to time I’m sent a wonderful piece of writing. This month it comes from Turkey. Ginger Taylor Saçlioglu was an English teacher at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara from 1968–70. Today she lives with her husband and cat in Istanbul where she works as a free lance translator and English teacher. Ginger is one of those RPCVs who never came home. She is also a writer who remembers. Read “For Love of Ankara” in our column, A Writer Writes.

Letters Home
This month we have a letter from Ethiopia by Kathleen M. Moore Ethiopia (1965–67) — well, it’s not actually a letter. For those of us who should have written home but didn’t, Kathleen explains why we didn’t.

Travel Right
Mike Tidwell (Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1985–87) recently sent us a piece from his soon-to-be-published collection of travel essays, In The Mountains Of Heaven: Unlikely Journeys On Six Continents. We are pleased to publish anything by Tidwell, especially a travel essay.

A Little Peace Corps History
In each issue, we attempt to pull back from time bits and pieces of our collective past. This month, we quote from an editorial in the Times Herald of Norristown, PA. published on February 15, 1962. The Peace Corps was a year old, and Sargent Shriver had just advised Congress of plans for 10,000 Volunteers serving overseas or in training by the end of August, 1963. He supported a Peace Corps request for a budget increase for the agency from the $30 million for 1962 to nearly $64 million for fiscal 1963.
     It was at that same time that President Alberto Lieras Comargo of Colombia said: “The Peace Corps is the finest way in which the United States could prove to the humble people of this and other lands that the primary purpose of this international program is to build a better life in all of the free world’s villages and neighborhoods.”|
     The Times Herald, however, would have something else to say about the Peace Corps. You can read their editorial in this issue — and more by going to the Current Issue.

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