About this title: Nambonkaha is an Ivory Coast village where the author spent two years as a volunteer in the late 1990s. Working primarily with health concerns like birth control, AIDS, and infant nutrition, she also learned how to cope with a new environment and make friends with the locals. Her appreciation of their respect for magic and sorcery, and her ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2004-08-01
ISBN-13:9780312423124ISBN:0312423128
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Description: Good. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Description: Good. 0805073817 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, New York
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780805073812ISBN:0805073817
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. FIRST EDITION! FINE; PRISTINE; ALMOST BRAND NEW! Tight binding; No spine crease; Interior pages clean & unmarked; DJ is FINE! read more
"I loved this book. The simplicity and caring of the Nambonkaha people was just wonderful. I especially liked the fact that the nurse didn't try to "americanize" anyone. She just tried to make women's lives a little easier."
"An honest and informative look at the daily life of a Peace Corps volunteer. I think the author captures the "heart" of the book best on page 48:
"I came here with 3 months of training under my belt. I was packed off to this village with only a collection of health-education books and a head full of vague ideas. I wanted no direction, no preconceived mission, and that's what I've gotten. I am here to see what I can make starting from scratch, and the tiny village of Nambonkaha is my ready canvas. But where do you start when health is vast and elusive at the same time? How do you strike a balance between old and new? How do you promote behavior change so that people have more control over the state of their bodies but stop at the threshold where important traditions get destroyed? And how can you presume to change anything at all as an outsider with a two-year contract?"
Erdman explores how she found the answers to some of those questions, and was able to make positive changes in some peoples' lives - including her own."
"This was one of the most beautiful and moving books that I have read in a long, long time. Erdman writes beautifully, and it is not about her at all, except as it relates to the people of Nambonkaha. She fell in love with them, and they her. The development of this unlikely symbiotic relationship unfolds with all its mystery, incomprehension, and finally, acceptance as slowly as the village does. I read the ending through tears, amazed that what I had just read was real and not fiction.."
"Fascinating window into pre-electric village life in West Africa. I traveled to within 50 or 100K of the village described in Nine Hills six years ago. I saw and visited villages like this, but in one week couldn't 'get under the skin'. Erdman could and did. I was impressed with the love and respect she had for the people of her village."
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