The Barrios of Manta: A Personal Account of the Peace Corps in Ecuador

  • Hardcover
  • New York: The New American Library, (c.1965)
By Brooks, Rhoda and Earle
New York: The New American Library. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1965). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good solid clean book with just a touch of wear to the top edges; the jacket is bright and clean, would rate Near Fine but for the price-clipping]. (B&W photographs, pen & ink drawings) "The first book ever written by Peace Corps volunteers," this volume relates the experience of the authors, a young couple who "left home and friends in Illinois to serve as members of the Peace Corps in Manta, Ecuador." Uncommon. .

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