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Title: So You Want to Join the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Go by Dillon Banerjee ISBN: 1-58008-097-9 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: He Answered All My Questions!
Comment: After researching every Peace Corps site on the net, I have finally began to continue my reading in local book stores and libraries. I read this book in one sitting and found many answers to the questions I had and even questions I hadn't considered yet. Sometimes the information gets a little redundant, but this book could have been a little better if Banerjee provided his readers with more personal volunteer stories. But all in all, if you have questions this book has plenty of answers and you won't walk away feeling like you wasted your money.
Rating: 4
Summary: Practical, straightforward advice
Comment: This book is the only one of its type that I have found, and is a thorough resource for those considering joining the Peace Corps. Much of it is practical advice for when you are actually a Peace Corps Volunteer serving overseas. However, it can be quite useful if you are just considering joining, as it gives you a good look at the realities of serving in the Peace Corps.
I have read it cover to cover and still have many un-answered questions about life in the Peace Corps, but it did address many of my concerns in a realistic way. The question-and-answer format makes it exceedingly easy to read and find the answer to FAQ's of prospective Peace Corps Volunteers. However, I felt the book was too short and would have liked to know much more than was printed.
Overall, it's an excellent starting resource for anyone considering joining the Peace Corps, or those who have already joined and are waiting to leave for their assignment.
Rating: 3
Summary: General questions answered here.
Comment: This book fills a certain need among Peace Corps applicants. Questions are typically answered with huge, sweeping generalizations within the PC world. Banerjee goes a long way in his attempt to quell the anxiety felt by anyone who has received, extensively, those vacuous responses. The problem is, however, that the life of a PC volunteer varies from one volunteer to the next. There is so much depending on your site, your country, and your personality that it is difficult to answer any one question without beginning to generalize as your recruiter or placement officer (or medical officer, or staging personnel, or...) has to do on a daily basis. It's just REALLY hard to answer any questions about PC life that will translate across the board to everyone. My suggestion: read the book. If you've had that nagging feeling that this is something you want to do, that you really want to join the Peace Corps, this book will not sway you either way. It might even answer some questions. But you know if you really want to go. So just do it. I'm speaking as someone who survived an evacuation and re-assignment. It will all work out.
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Title: Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle by Moritz Thomsen ISBN: 0295969288 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.09 |
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Title: How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas by Joseph Collins, Stefano Dezerega, Zahara Heckscher ISBN: 014200071X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Mango Elephants in the Sun : How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin by Susana Herrera ISBN: 1570625727 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World and U.S. Volunteer Opportunities (9th Ed.) by Joan Powell ISBN: 0935028838 Publisher: Food First Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Village of Waiting by George Packer ISBN: 0374527806 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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