About Other Places Publishing

Other Places Publishing is a start-up travel guide (and sometimes travelogue) publisher focused on bringing the local knowledge of select countries to our readers. Our strength lies in utilizing Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who are intimately familiar with the local culture and posses an intuition for what independent travelers need and want. Our guidebooks are not written by professional writers who have had little interaction with the countries they write about. Rather, our books are insightful, well researched and provide our readers with information that only a local can provide.

Our catalog of books is continuously expanding. We anticipate an initial release of 11 travel guides covering 8 countries. By the the fall of 2010 we hope to have 20 guides in print while poised for continued growth into the new year.

If you would like to contact us, please email info@otherplacespublishing.com. RPCVs interested in writing for us, please click here.

About the Peace Corps

The Peace Corps traces its roots and mission to 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. From that inspiration grew an agency of the federal government devoted to world peace and friendship.

Peace Corps Volunteers submerge themselves in local culture as part of their training. In order to help the people they serve, they must live, work and learn alongside locals. Peace Corps Volunteers are on the front lines tackling issues ranging from AIDS education to information technology and environmental preservation.  Since John F. Kennedy called those to serve, over 200,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in 139 host countries.  Peace Corps Volunteers continue to help countless individuals who want to build a better life for themselves, their children, and their communities.

Other Places Pubishing has no affiliation nor assocation with the U.S. Peace Corps. All of our writers and researchers are former Peace Corps Volunteers.

Featured Publication
The Peace Corps Latrine Reader