Lucke lewis (5 Ergebnisse)

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PAPERBACK, very good, appears little used if at all, indentations along bottom edge of cover and some pages near start. LUCKE, LEWIS. Waiting for rain : life and development in Mali, West Africa. Hanover, Mass:: Christopher Pub. House, 1998, 197pp., . Was Ambassador to Swaziland (Eswatini since 2018) from 2004 to 2006. Here his memoirs of working in Mali. 9780815805298 ISBN 0815805292.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lucke's ability to move his personal encounters and experiences into broader social and political inspection, especially the injection of changing diplomatic efforts in different nations, contributes strength to a story that draws in readers with its promise of travel and adventure, but ultimately provides so much more.-Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book ReviewWhile spending thirty years overseas in the US Foreign Service, and living in eleven countries and working in many more, Ambassador Lucke accumulated many stories that would never have happened 'at home.' His work took him to Timbuktu (twice), to places in West Africa where kids ran away in fear at their first glimpse of a person with white skin, to the scary run up to Gulf War I in North Africa, to the jungles of Bolivia and Lake Titicaca in the Andes, the fall of Communism in the old Czechoslovakia, biblical sites of Jerusalem, the passing of King Hussein in Jordan, to interaction with a few US Presidents and many members of Congress. He was thrust into the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, deployed into the war zone of Iraq, and finally served as US Ambassador to the last absolute monarchy in Africa. His take on a thirty-year career abroad: 'It was never boring.'.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextLucke s ability to move his personal encounters and experiences into broader social and political inspection, especially the injection of changing diplomatic efforts in different nations, contributes strength to a story .

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