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Author Cornett, Meredith W., 1968-

Title Heart of palms : my Peace Corps years in Tranquilla / Meredith W. Cornett ; foreword by Florence Reed
Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014

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Contents Plant species mentioned in the text -- Introduction -- Part I. Seed (germination): July-December 1991 -- Armando -- Platano -- Papaya -- Teca -- Exploracion -- Agua -- Posadas -- Part II. Seedling (taking root): January-June 1992 -- Brujeria -- Limon -- Todo el mundo -- Acacia -- Hormigas -- Palmas -- Part III. Sapling (establishment): July-December 1992 -- Recursos naturales -- Donde el gringo -- La operacion -- Victor Venenoso -- Salud -- Leucaena -- Boa -- Part IV. Tree (harvest): January-June 1993 -- Demonstracion -- Almejas -- Quinceanera -- Lorena -- Miel -- Bosque -- Despedida -- Epilogue
Summary Heart of Palms is a clear-eyed memoir of Peace Corps service in the rural Panamanian village of Tranquilla through the eyes of a young American woman trained as a community forester. In the storied fifty-year history of the US Peace Corps, Heart of Palms is the first Peace Corps memoir set in Panama, the slender isthmus that connects two continents and two oceans. In her memoir, Meredith Cornett transports readers to the remote village of Tranquilla, where dugout canoes are the mainstay of daily transportation, life and nature are permeated by witchcraft, and a restful night's sleep may be dist
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Subject Cornett, Meredith W., 1968-
SUBJECT Cornett, Meredith W., 1968- fast
Subject Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Biography
SUBJECT Peace Corps (U.S.) fast
Subject Rain forest ecology -- Panama -- History -- 20th century
Rain forest ecology -- Panama -- San Vicente de la Tranquilla -- History -- 20th century
Women ecologists -- Panama -- Biography
Americans -- Panama -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
NATURE -- Ecology.
NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
Americans
Ecology
Manners and customs
Rain forest ecology
Women ecologists
SUBJECT Panama -- Environmental conditions
San Vicente de la Tranquilla (Panama) -- Environmental conditions
San Vicente de la Tranquilla (Panama) -- Social life and customs
San Vicente de la Tranquilla (Panama) -- Biography
Subject Panama
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817387402
0817387404