The gringo
Subtitle: a memoir
By: J. Grigsby Crawford
Publisher: Wild Elephent Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780988482272
Subjects: Travel; Biography; Ecotourism; Description and travel; Peace Corps (U.S.)
Description: "Within weeks of arriving as a volunteer in a remote corner of South America, Crawford got a lot more than he bargained for: a narrow escape from a kidnapping plot hatched by the people he was sent there to help. Then things only got stranger. In his quest to find adventure, Crawford undertook a savage journey of danger, drugs, sex, and alarming illness. What resulted is The Gringo: one part literary tale of two lonely years in the Amazon jungle and one part gonzo-journalism account of life in the Peace Corps, an agency wandering aimlessly through the twenty-first century"--Page 4 of cover.