The Farm on the River of Emeralds

<p>Recounts the author's struggles, in company with a thirty-year-old semiliterate black Ecuadorian, against nature, history, tradition, and other men in their efforts to run a tropical farm in accordance with fair play and racial equality</p>

Travel

Moritz Thomsen

Travel Writing

Vintage

The Saddest PleasureThe Saddest Pleasure is a deeply personal look at the people, poverty, beauty, art, music, literature, and passion of South America by an American who has spent most of his life there.Moritz Thomsen was one of the early Peace Corps volunteers. Through his skill as a writer he vividly brings to life the people and landscapes he loves. The Saddest Pleasure tells the story of Thomsen's desperate departure from Ecuador at the age of sixty-three and his soul-searching journey through Brazil and the Amazon River. Along the way the author reflects on the meaning of his own life and the world around him, his friendships, and on the distances between people and cultures.Thomsen's spirited observations are tinged with irascibility, as he moves from city to feudal countryside, from primitive conditions to the startlingly contemporary details of a culture in transition.Paul Theroux's introduction to this book is a testament to Mr. Thomsen's remarkable life.

The Saddest Pleasure : A Journey on Two Rivers

Biographies & Memoirs

Sumach Press

Sumach Press,The

Living Poor: An American's Encounter with Ecuador

ELAND PUBLISHING LTD

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