LIVING LIBERIA. LAUGHTER, LOVE & FOLLY - Tecno-Libro

in the winter of his 39 th year, Robert Cherry, a journalist and the author of the definitive biography of an American sports legend (Wilt Chamberlain), made a return visit to Africa. His destination was the village in the Liberian rain forest where, fourteen years before, he had served as a Peace Corps Volunteer the first American to live there. The result is Living Liberia , which introduces the reader to a charming, exotic and unforgettable land, although given Liberia s history it seems that God himself, at times, has forgotten it. The book evokes the author s special and enduring relationship with, and his sharp observations about, the country and its people, including Liberia s unique history it was founded by freed American slaves. the challenges of living in a village for almost two years without electricity and running water and teaching with a principal who made up national holidays. Moreover, it depicts the education of a young American