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Living Poor : An American's Encounter with Ecuador - Moritz Thomsen

Living Poor

An American's Encounter with Ecuador

By: Moritz Thomsen

Paperback | 21 January 2013

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At the age of forty-eight, war veteran Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm in California and joined the Peace Corps. For the next four years he lived in an impoverished village on the coast of Ecuador, amongst inhabitants so poor that six chickens represented wealth, and cigarettes were bought one at a time, on credit.

Thomsen discovered how difficult it was for an outsider to help, and most of his attempts were a mixture of tragedy and farce. This did not prevent him from entering into the hearts and minds of a different people, becoming 'just another person in a poor village, working out my own problems and frustrations, making friends and enemies like one more citizen of the town'.

Industry Reviews

'A superb book that puts Thomsen in a class with W H Hudson.' Paul Theroux

'This book challenges facile assumptions across the political spectrum in the best possible way: by quietly telling the truth.' Anthony Daniels, Sunday Telegraph

'He was true in practice to his beliefs and the result, for us, is truly extraordinary writing.' Martha Gellhorn

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