![]() ![]() ![]() She also worked to aid in controlling tsetse fly within the dense bush on the banks of the Zambezi located in Zimbabwe. Nancy would spend over a year on Lake Cabora Bassa in Mozambique, which she monitored water weeds. Nancy was able to finally get to Africa on a ship that was legal. It got boarded by the Coast Guard right outside the Golden Gate Bridge. She and one of her buddies tried to hitchhike by boat, however the ship they had picked wound up being stolen. ![]() Then got hired in the Entomology department at UC Berkley and took Chemistry courses while she was there. She got back and moved into a commune in Berkley, sold newspapers as a street vendor for a time. Instead of getting some kind of regular job, she joined the Peace Corps and got sent to India, where she was from 1963-1965. In 1963, she got her BA from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She found the time to hang out in the old state prison as well as the hobo jungle along the banks of the Colorado River. Nancy Farmer grew up in a hotel near the Mexico-Arizona border, here she worked the switchboard when she was just nine. ![]()
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