The Galápagos Islands of Ecuador were my first international travel experience at the impressionable age of 19. Feeling stuck and discontent in the Ivory Tower, and with a burning itch to see what else was out there, I headed to the Galápagos as a volunteer ESL teacher with the program WorldTeach the summer after my…
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The Sophisticated Savage
My first book, The Sophisticated Savage, was published in 2009. It’s based on my experiences in Ecuador in 2001, when I taught English for a summer on the Galápagos Islands, and 2005. From the back cover: An anthropological memoir with a romantic twist. A Harvard student and an ex-cannibal may seem like an unlikely pair,…