Peregrina: Unexpected Adventures of an American Consul 9780984583249

Варианты приобретения

Цена: 5150.00р.
Кол-во:
Наличие: Поставка под заказ. Есть в наличии на складе поставщика.
Склад Америка: Есть
При оформлении заказа до: 2025-07-23
Ориентировочная дата поставки: конец Сентября - начало Октября
При условии наличия книги у поставщика.

Добавить в корзину

в Мои желания

Автор: Young Ginny Carson
Название: Peregrina: Unexpected Adventures of an American Consul
ISBN: 9780984583249
Издательство: Vellum
Классификация:

Мемуары

Политика и политический строй

Дипломатия

ISBN-10: 0984583246
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 394
Вес: 0.58 кг.
Дата издания: 28.03.2012
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 229 x 152 x 22
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Unexpected adventures of an american consul
Рейтинг:
Поставляется из: США
Описание: This is the story of a woman entering a consular career on her own after the death of her Foreign Service officer husband. She describes the consular world with humor, empathy, and anecdotes. She served for twenty years as a consular officer in four posts, first looking after American hippies in India and after that a huge American business community in Hong Kong. She was principal officer in the Yucat n area of Mexico, then consul general in Bucharest, Romania, before and after a revolution that resulted in the demise of dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu. This fine memoir, told with much humor, details the many high points of Youngs time abroad and traces her growth from a diplomats wife to one of the best representatives of the U.S. government. -JOHN NEEDHAM, former UPI correspondent and L.A. Times reporter and editorial writer Wonderfully readable and sharp as a stiletto, Peregrina tells the memorable story of a State Department wife who, after the untimely death of her husband, reinvents herself as an American consul general. -JOHN POWERS, Movie Critic, Vogue Ginny Young emerges as a warm, self-deprecating, thoroughly committed Foreign Service officer whose approach to the world around her is tinged with a keen appreciation of the ridiculous. Her writing style is lively and engaging, strong in the many instances in which her values and opinions emerge. -BRANDON GROVE, U.S. Ambassador (ret.) As unique as its author, this story takes us on a journey that includes the Hill, Africa, Western Europe, India, Hong Kong, Mexico, and Romania during the collapse of the Ceauşescu dictatorship, with cameo stops in Haiti and Afghanistan... A must read for anyone who may doubt the importance and variety of consular work, the human face of the Foreign Service. -NICHOLAS VELIOTES, U.S. Ambassador (ret.) Anyone would be lucky to lead a life as full and meaningful as Ginny Carson Youngs. Even more, we would be lucky if we could capture it so elegantly and with such wit in prose. -BOB PACKWOOD, former U.S. Senator

Peregrina: Unexpected Adventures of an American Consul, Young Ginny Carson