Even the Dead Are Coming
Author | : Michael Robbins |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2009-08-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780578035697 |
ISBN-13 | : 0578035693 |
Rating | : 4/5 (693 Downloads) |
Download or read book Even the Dead Are Coming written by Michael Robbins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-08-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987 Mike Robbins, a 30-year-old London journalist, decided on a change of lifestyle and signed up for two years as an overseas volunteer. Some weeks later he found himself standing with his luggage in the middle of a featureless baked-earth plain in Eastern Sudan. It was over 100 deg F in the shade. And there was no shade. This is Robbins's account of the two years that followed, working with the Sudan Government in the last months of a failed democratic experiment, as the country coped with hundreds of thousands of refugees in the aftermath of the 1980s famine. But it is also a personal account of life as a development volunteer in a surprising, sometimes inspiring, country.