![]() ![]() ![]() Lib., Richmond, Va.Ĭopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. It is an optional purchase for travel or anthropology collections. ![]() A more comprehensive account of Pulaar culture would also have increased the value and interest of this book. Lowerre presents her work as essentially futile, and in the end her struggle seems more self-pitying than heroic. Although she points out that her Peace Corps work is incidental to this story, Tidwell's book is stronger because he describes the goals and techniques of fish farming. : Under the Neem Tree (9780295972732) by Lowerre, Susan and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Lowerre emphasizes her emotional life and love/hate affair with a country that depressed her and ruined her health, yet seized her imagination and gave her an adoptive Senegalese family. Tidwell and Lowerre both sought acceptance by their hosts, and their books offer insights into the difficulties and rewards of such friendships. Like Mike Tidwell in The Ponds on Kalambayi ( LJ 8/90), Lowerre recounts her experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer responsible for teaching fish culture to Africans, in this case Pulaar tribespeople in Senegal. Synopsis: The author recounts her experiences living in Senegal and teaching the villagers there how to raise fish ![]()
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