Robert Cabot

Gebundenes Buch

The Mango Tree

Beschreibung

The Mango Tree follows the life of Ramiro Valenzuela, an indigenous native, as he embarks on a wild journey that takes him from his homeland in Mexico to the United States, Italy, Greece, the UK, and Canada.

Autor

Robert Cabot is the author of The Isle of Khería; That Sweetest Wine: Three Novellas; The Joshua Tree; and Times Up! A Memoir of the American century. Writing is his first love. Now at 99, he has written The Mango Tree. Cabot is a fellow of the National Endowment of the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ucross Foundation.He is a veteran of many campaigns of World War II in North Africa and Europe. He received degrees Harvard College and Yale Law School, served for ten years in the Marshall Plan and foreign aid programs in Italy, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Washington, D.C., and resigned from the foreign service in protest over U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. He has since worked with international communities, the citizen diplomacy movement, and environmental and social change projects. He lived for many years in Italy and Greece, returning to the U.S. in a solo transatlantic sail with his thirty-foot sloop in 1976. Cabot lives on Whidbey Island, Washington and in a mountain town in south-eastern Arizona with his wife Penny. Between them they have six children and many grandchildren.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McPherson
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9798988680307
• Artikelnr.: 70548636