As summer looms, many Americans — college students, retirees and others who stand at the cusp of life changes — will make similar choices in search of transformational experiences. An industry exists to make these easier to make: the voluntourism business. A voluntourist is someone like Jack, who wishes to combine exotic vacation travel with volunteer work.

She showed me her portrait, written by herself. I only remember what she states of her mouth, which, she says, was not only beautiful and red, but had a thousand little natural airs and graces not to be found in any other mouth. Oh, I must not forget her figure, which, she assured the reader, was the best-made and the finest that could be seen: nothing could be more regular, more graceful, or more easy.

The larger tribelets usually had several permanent villages.

In Chapter 5 the narrative and analysis shift to the global South, that part of the globe once known as the Third World. This is the main site of "informalisation' (or Brazilianisation) whereby 'non-standard' forms of employment become prevalent.