MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aDU710$b.R83 2009
100 1 $aRudiak-Gould, Peter.
245 10 $aSurviving paradise :$bone year on a disappearing island /$cby Peter Rudiak-Gould.
260 $aNew York :$bUnion Square Press,$cc2009.
300 $a244 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $aJust one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching English to its schoolchildren.
505 0 $aMoon landing -- A beautiful prison -- The Marshall Islands on one dollar a day -- A tropical paradox -- Learning to speak again -- Underwater coralhead cinderblock soccer wrestling -- No student left behind -- The scent of new things -- Gone sailing -- It takes a village to break a spirit -- A vacation from paradise -- Confessions of a spearfisherman -- From island to mainland -- On the waterfront -- Liberation days -- Getting past customs -- To bring to an end -- Another shore -- Fallen palms.
651 0 $aUjelang Atoll (Marshall Islands)$xDescription and travel.
600 10 $aRudiak-Gould, Peter$xTravel$zMarshall Islands$zUjelang Atoll.