THE VOLUNTOURIST: A SIX-COUNTRY TALE OF LOVE, LOSS, FATHERHOOD, AND MYSTERY CHINESE UNDERPANTS
Book ID/图书代码： 02330011B48867
English Summary/英文概要： I want to live a life that matters. With these words, the author begins a poignant, enlightening, often comic quest to help others. It’s a quixotic six-country journey: an attempt not only to measure up to his father’s life, but to accept his unexpected death. Fueled by the loss of his dad, the author takes a series of “voluntourism” trips—two-week, mini-Peace Corps excursions—where he confronts the sad fact that defines him: that his wife, who he’s known since childhood, doesn’t want children.
He’ll never be a father himself. And so he works on a rebuilding project in New Orleans nine months after Hurricane Katrina and teaches at an elementary school in Costa Rica. After that, the author volunteers at a special needs school in China, a climate change study in the remote Andes mountains of Ecuador, a series of projects in the war-torn West Bank, and a children’s home in Kenya.
This is not simply a book about voluntourism. It’s a story of love and loss, fatherhood and faith; an exploration of how we transform life’s disappointments into profound and positive deeds. It’s an honest, sad, sarcastic, inspirational look at fighting grief with generosity, and determining if we live better when we live for others—even if it’s only two weeks at a time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Ken Budd的《The Voluntourist》是一部關於尋找父愛，接受命運安排，及通過世界各地的志願者為同一個具有價值的目標而找尋屬於自己命運的一篇回憶錄：曾在新奧爾良“卡特裡娜”颶風致力於賑災，在中國幫助過許多特殊需求兒童的，正在研究氣候變化對厄瓜多爾產生影響，借住雙手—— 和一顆赤誠之心—— 在中東地區的幾處巴勒斯坦難民營，從事著一些有意義的公益活動。Ken的情感之旅受到像《Little Princes》和《Three Cups of Tea》的激勵和影響。同時，一個關於強大的家庭紐帶，奉獻，尋找自我的真實故事應運而生，《The Voluntourist》是一部關於人之常情，你在現實生活中將永遠不會忘記的英雄故事。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：Great Booklist review for Ken Budd’s soul-searching volunteer vacation memoir:
“In his early forties, writer Budd both lost his father to a sudden heart attack and realized he and his wife would never be parents themselves. Turning inward, Budd consciously decided to cope with these midlife traumas by giving of himself, signing up to rebuild Katrina-ravaged homes in New Orleans. Now bitten by the bug of “voluntourism” (a sort of extreme travel, with a do-gooder bent, wherein vacationers volunteer in exchange for generally bare-bones accommodation), Budd’s next trips have him teaching English in Costa Rica, assisting special-needs students in China, doing grunt labor as part of a global-warming observation
team in Ecuador, performing odd jobs in Palestine, and working at an orphanage in Kenya. His father’s words are with him throughout—“Anything worth doing is worth doing right”; “You achieve success when others succeed”—giving him a boost at innumerable moments of uphill burden. Readers of this unique travel memoir will undoubtedly be inspired to take a volunteer vacation of their own, and the author includes helpful tips on how to do just that.” -- Booklist
About the Author/作者介绍： Ken Budd是一位備受讚譽的作家和編輯，他的作品一直收到包括史密森學會，華盛頓郵報，麥克斯威尼，Stuff，華盛頓人，現代幽默，Opium，世界觀，和AARP雜誌的好評。Ken現在和妻子住在近華盛頓的弗吉尼亞州的伯克。Ken Budd is an award-winning writer and editor whose writing credits include Smithsonian, the Washington Post, the McSweeney’s, Stuff, Washingtonian, Modern Humorist, Opium, Worldview, and AARP The Magazine. Ken lives in Burke, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., with his wife.
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