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Of all the wryly humorous memoirs about White Boys Traveling to Exotic Places ™, this is one of them. It's a fairly forgettable book (a year on I have forgotten all of the details, both major and minor) but as far as I remember, sometime in the early to mid 90s, Philip Ells headed off as a volunteer with the British Voluntary Service Overseas (sort of the British equivalent of the Peace Corps) to be the people's lawyer of Tuvalu. His willingness to be the butt of the joke won my sympathy at firs
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This is the memoir of an English lawyer in his 20s who volunteers to work for two years on Tuvalu, which-let’s face it-you would probably only read if, like me, you were trying to do a Read Around the World reading challenge, as the available pickings for Tuvalu are slim indeed.
Ells tells the story of his life on this remote Pacific Island group as the People’s Lawyer of Tuvalu, although he was at times called the People’s Liar. Ells was the only lawyer on an islan ...more
This is the memoir of an English lawyer in his 20s who volunteers to work for two years on Tuvalu, which-let’s face it-you would probably only read if, like me, you were trying to do a Read Around the World reading challenge, as the available pickings for Tuvalu are slim indeed.
Ells tells the story of his life on this remote Pacific Island group as the People’s Lawyer of Tuvalu, although he was at times called the People’s Liar. Ells was the only lawyer on an islan ...more
Jun 06, 2016
Helen
marked it as to-read
