The Saddest Pleasure
Born in 1915 to great wealth in Seattle, Moritz Thomsen died miserably poor in the tropics, of cholera, in 1991. He served as a bombardier in WWII, farmed in California, and at age 44 gave it all up to join the recently-formed Peace Corps.
His book about that experience, Living Poor, is ranked as one of the best Peace Corps memoirs ever written. When hi…
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