Coming-of-Age novel set on Mudeford Spit, DORSET
Tarnished Ivory
Location(s): Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Mali
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): 1973-75
As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ivory Coast (1973-75) and a Peace Corps trainer in Mali (1986), Peter Bourque kept a personal journal and wrote over 55 letters back to the States. In them, he described the satisfactions and frustrations of living, working and traveling in West Africa as well as his reactions to the people he encountered-Ivorian, French, Malian and American. Decades later, he reflects and elaborates on these writings with current-day observations and candid essays about idealism, world poverty, the Peace Corps, the French, and losing his religion.
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