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American Taboo : A Murder in the Peace Corps par Philip Weiss (2004, couverture rigide)
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5,22 USD (environ 4,47 EUR) USPS Media MailTM.
Lieu où se trouve l'objet : Bigfork, Montana, États-Unis
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Etat correct
- Commentaires du vendeur
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Title
- American Taboo
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Age Level
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Regional Cuisine
- American
- Type
- Chronicle
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subjects
- Biographies & True Stories
- ISBN
- 9780060096861
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060096861
ISBN-13
9780060096861
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30202227
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Taboo : a Murder in the Peace Corps
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
World / Australian & Oceanian, Murder / General, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Social History, General, International Relations / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Criminology
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, True Crime, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-302417
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
364.152/3/099612
Synopsis
TABOO (n) [Tongan tabu] 1: a prohibition against touching, saying, or doing something for fear of immediate harm from a supernatural force. In 1975, thirty-three Peace Corps volunteers landed in the island nation of Tonga. It was an exotic place -- men wearing grass skirts, coconut-thatched huts, pigs wandering the crushed-coral streets -- governed by strange and exacting rules of conduct. The idealistic young Americans called it never-never land, as if it existed in a world apart from the one they knew and the things that happened there would be undone when they went home. Among them was a beautiful twenty-three-year-old woman who, like so many volunteers before her, was in search of adventure. Sensuous and free-spirited, Deborah Gardner would become an object of desire, even obsession, in the small expatriate community. On the night of October 14, 1976, she was found dying inside her hut, stabbed twenty-two times. Hours later, another volunteer turned himself in to the Tongan police, and many of the other Americans were sure he had committed the crime. But with the aid of the State Department, he returned to New York a free man, flown home at the Peace Corps's expense. Deb Gardner's death and the outlandish aftermath took on legendary proportions in Tonga; in the United States, government officials made sure the story was suppressed. Now Philip Weiss unravels the truth about what happened in Tonga more than a quarter century ago. With bravura reporting and vivid, novelistic prose, Weiss transforms a Polynesian legend into a singular artifact of American history and a profoundly moving human story.
LC Classification Number
HV6535.T65W45 2004
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