Mr. Bob, the Chicken Engineer: Toward Understanding the Real Vietnam
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (909 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 145821351X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 108 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Robert C. He was also an agricultural volunteer with the International Voluntary Services during the Vietnam War and later. . Hargreaves is a retired poultry specialist who formerly worked with the California Department of Food and Agriculture
Hargreaves got a firsthand look at the real Vietnam from 1965 to 1967 as an agricultural volunteer with the International Voluntary Services, which was the predecessor to the Peace Corps. Throughout the countryside, he developed chicken projects and other agricultural endeavors. Little attention is given to the people who live there and the rich history of the country itself. The closest expression that the Vietnamese had for poultry specialist was "chicken engineer" so everywhere he went, Hargreaves was introduced as "Mr. Bob, the Chicken Engineer, Hargreaves reveals close details of that period in Vietnam that are not often heard about in the Western world-beggars in the streets, soldiers giving away their paychecks to help children, the everyday kindness of peasants, and growing anti-American sentiments as the war dragged on.. Poultry specialist Robert C. When people outside of Vietnam hear the name of this country, they often automatically think of war, politics, and lives lost. He returned to the country several times. Bob, the chicken engineer" The phrase sounds just as funny in Vietnamese as it does in English, and as a resul
Enjoyable, sensitive memoir of Vietnam John Williamson Mr. Bob the Chicken Engineer is a thoughtful and thoroughly enjoyable memoire of the early years of the Vietnam War written from a perspective that is too rarely presented. Robert Hargreaves is a poultry scientist who served as a young civiliam volunteer with Internatio. Karen West said Vietnam from a volunteer's viewpoint. Robert Hargreaves went to Vietnam in the middle of a war to help the people of Phang Rang. His reason for going was humanitarian to help the people as a poultry expert or as their language translates a "chicken inspector". As things turned out it wasn't just chickens bu. "An interesting read about early US involvement in Vietnam" according to Kathryn K. Sweet. This is a book by Robert Hargreaves about his time as a volunteer in Vietnam (Phang Rang) working to increase the productiveness of chicken farmers- hence the term chicken engineer. I quite enjoyed the first potion of the book when he talks about his early years in Viet
He was also an agricultural volunteer with the International Voluntary Services during the Vietnam War and later. Robert C. Hargreaves is a retired poultry specialist who formerly worked with the California Department of Food and Agriculture.