Title:
Surviving paradise : one year on a disappearing island / by Peter Rudiak-Gould.
Author:
Rudiak-Gould, Peter.
Publication Information:
New York : Union Square Press, c2009.
Call Number:
DU710 .R83 2009
Abstract:
Just one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching English to its schoolchildren.
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ISBN:
9781402766640
Physical Description:
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Moon landing -- A beautiful prison -- The Marshall Islands on one dollar a day -- A tropical paradox -- Learning to speak again -- Underwater coralhead cinderblock soccer wrestling -- No student left behind -- The scent of new things -- Gone sailing -- It takes a village to break a spirit -- A vacation from paradise -- Confessions of a spearfisherman -- From island to mainland -- On the waterfront -- Liberation days -- Getting past customs -- To bring to an end -- Another shore -- Fallen palms.
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