From Masai Mara to Da Nang

About the Book

In this book, I present a number of often-exciting and sometimes very unusual experiences I have had while visiting, living, and/or working in several foreign countries over a thirty-year period from 1967 until 1997. Contained in this volume, one of three, I have selected thirty of the over two hundred stories I wrote during my working career while traveling to and from overseas assignments. The stories detail actual events and conditions that include surviving a Peace Corps experience in the savannah area in Kenya in the 1960s, working in the swamps and jungles of Indonesia, the rain forests of Brazil, the desert and delta of Egypt, and the varied terrain in Pakistan, and inspecting the irrigation facilities of the war-torn country of Vietnam eighteen years after the war with the United States ended.

About the Author

Frederick Frank Schantz was born into a multicultural family in Yreka, California, on January 26, 1946. He attended Yreka Union High School, from where he went on to college to acquire a B.A. in English, an M.A. in Anthropology, and an M.S. in International Agriculture. Between degrees, he served his country in the Peace Corps in Kenya, Africa. Before returning overseas to work for twenty-two years in poor countries, he taught college-level courses in cultural anthropology, world prehistory, American Indian history, ethnic studies, agricultural mechanics, and California Indian and Afro-American history. In 2008 he retired after ten years of managing the operations of a 50,000-acre California rice-farming company. Fred decided to settle in Medford, Oregon, where the air is still clean and people are still friendly, to write his memoirs and a historical novel. His email is fredsch6@gmail.com.