Peter Rudiak Gould: 2 books

just 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...

When Peter Rudiak-Gould was twenty-four years old, he left his native America and sought out a legendary city, a millennium in age and the color of gold. This was Oxford: a place as celebrated and coveted as Bali Ha’i or Shangri-La – and, with its unscalable walls, forbidden gardens, and exacting...