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Living Poor; a Peace Corps Chronicle
At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation--including his own--and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have madeLiving Poora classic. "Hilariously funny at times, grimly sad at others and elavened with perceptive insights into the ways of the people and with breathtaking descriptions of the Ecuadorian landscape."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Saddest Pleasure
Abruptly expelled from his farm in Ecuador at the age of sixty-two, Moritz Thomsen indulges in that saddest of pleasures - travel - taking a trip to Brazil and ultimately a journey up the great Amazon River by boat.Assaulted by ghosts and memories at every turn, as his journey unfolds he re-examines his life to understand how he came to be living a life of self-imposed poverty and hardship. Outwardly he sails up the Amazon towards Manaus, giving us poignant and limpid descriptions of the river, yet inwardly a shattering romantic symphony rages, running from the depths of human misery to life's small but exquisite transcendent pleasures. He spares the reader nothing.
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Letters from Moritz Thomsen
Who was Moritz Thomsen? Author of the "Bible" of the Peace Corps, "Living Poor," Moritz Thomsen has been called the greatest American writer you've never heard of. Larry McMurtry called "his voice--cranky, intolerant, tough-minded, generous to those whose faults appealed to him--was like no other...I've come away from each of his four books feeling exhilarated--not because of what happens in the books but because the writing is so good."Lawrence Millman called Moritz Thomsen "a warhorse, iconoclast, storyteller ... on the short list of our very best writers." Tim Cahill said: "Moritz Thomsen was among the most elegant of writers, capable of breaking your heart in a single sentence and making...
My Two Wars
One of the best American writers of the century, Thomsen's writing about war is stunning. --The Washington Post
The Saddest Pleasure
This is an account, introduced by Paul Theroux, of the author's journey as a 63-year-old gringo through Brazil. During the course of this journey he reflects on his escape in middle age from his wealthy pacific Northwest family to South America, where he became a Peace Crops worker in Ecuador. He then tells of how he brought a farm which he worked in partnership with a local friend. 12 years later his friend kicked him off the farm and Thomsen, stunned by the rejection embarked on a trip across Brazil. In candid prose, he describes Rio, Bahia, and the Amazon River, lined with one-room shacks and millionaires' rancheros. Gradually through his relationship with this extraordinary continent and with the people he meets along the way, he begins to make sense of his life.
Bad News from a Black Coast
Avid followers of the career and life of Mr. Thomsen have known of this unpublished manuscript. We are so pleased to put into print the first edition of Bad News. The editors, with the permission of the Thomsen family, created this edition from a photocopy of the original typed manuscript, which includes the author's own handwritten notes and corrections. With this first edition, the family seeks to bring Mr. Thomsen's newest book to a loyal and appreciative readership that has long wondered about the existence of the Bad News manuscript, and were eager to see it in print. In this book, Mr. Thomsen presents us with a series of 30+ insightful vignettes dating back to his arrival in Ecuador in 1964. These snapshots of many of the characters of earlier books add depth and perspective to Mr. Thomsen's attempt at making sense of the tragedy and beauty of his complex world in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. The work builds not only upon his previous studies of poverty, but builds methodically through specific memories that frame his, and now our, understanding of what he witnesses.
Design Transactions
Design Transactions presents the outcome of new research to emerge from ‘Innochain’, a consortium of six leading European architectural and engineering-focused institutions and their industry partners. The book presents new advances in digital design tooling that challenge established building cultures and systems. It offers new sustainable and materially smart design solutions with a strong focus on changing the way the industry thinks, designs, and builds our physical environment. Divided into sections exploring communication, simulation and materialisation, Design Transactions explores digital and physical prototyping and testing that challenges the traditional linear construction methods of incremental refinement. This novel research investigates ‘the digital chain’ between phases as an opportunity for extended interdisciplinary design collaboration. The highly illustrated book features work from 15 early-stage researchers alongside chapters from world-leading industry collaborators and academics.
Fresh-air Fiend
Whether visiting the King of the Lozis at a bend in the Zambezi river or crossing the United States in a railway car of unsurpassable luxury, relating his experiments with biblical dieting, or detailing the illneses and diseases suffered in half a lifetime of travel, Paul Theroux, the fresh-air fiend himself, is always an entertaining and honest guide. Full of startling encounters and memorable scenes, fascinating and sometimes bizarre locations, and enlightening musings on themes as various as sexual attraction and the point of travel writing itself, this extensive collection of his shorter pieces is a rich and remarkable book from a superb writer.
