Full name: Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle

Author: Moritz Thomsen Year: 1969 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Travel, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780295969282 0295969288

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.