{"product_id":"2940045211314","title":"The Making of a Peace Corps Volunteer: From Maine to Thailand","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in the small Acadian French-speaking village of Lille, Maine, learning English as a second language, being in a strong family, training in carpentry with his father, attending the internationally minded St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia – all helped to prepare the author for Peace Corps service. Along with other pioneer volunteers, the author helped to shape the Peace Corps into a vibrant organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected Chapter Titles:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wild Ride in a Helicopter with Sargent Shriver”. “Cussing Sister Simeon in French”; “Spirituality in a Hammock”; “Peace Corps? Christian Brothers? Soldier?”; “What’s a Peace Corps Volunteer?”; “Fried Bananas”; “China Says Peace Corps Volunteers are Spies”; “Becoming the Peace Corps Volunteer I wanted to Be”; “Too Drunk to Ride My Bike”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories are suggestive of the author’s growth and development from a nascent sense of self and consciousness embedded at birth to the end of his service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand 1, 1961 to 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roger Parent","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072153665776,"sku":"2940045211314","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045211314_p0.jpg?v=1763971361","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045211314","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}