Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers
- ISBN-10
- 0813129753
- ISBN-13
- 9780813129754
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 373
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Authors
- Jack Wilson, Angene Hopkins Wilson
Description
Based on more than one hundred oral history interviews, [this title] follows the the experiences of Kentuckians who chose to live and work in other countries around the world, fostering close, lasting relationships with the people they served. -- jacket.
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