The author, an early Peace Corps worker, tells of his "desperate departure from Ecuador at the age of sixty-three and his soul-searching journey through Brazil

Abruptly expelled from his farm in Ecuador at the age of sixty-two, Moritz Thomsen indulges in that saddest of pleasures - travel - taking a trip to Brazil and

At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation