A Nurse Abroad - Couverture souple

Watts, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1471309894 ISBN 13 : 9781471309892

Editeur : Paragon, 2013

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Quatrième de couverture

Working in a hospital, wherever in the world it may be, tells you a lot about a town and the people who give it colour, pace and heart. It's where you can take the pulse of a community.
In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse with the world at her feet. Her adventurous spirit meant she wasn't going to stay in North Wales, where she had grown up, and at the first opportunity she set sail for northern Canada to work among the Inuit people. Her extraordinary experiences fuelled her taste for remote places, and she soon took her skills to the Australian outback.
Deadly snakes in the 'dunny', staff who went walkabout and maggot therapy were just some of the surprises she encountered working in a tough cattle-ranching community living in close proximity with Aboriginal people. Forty years later Anne returned to both countries to see how life has changed in Eskimo Point and Alice Springs, and what has become of its people and landscape. For almost fifty years Anne has brought her courage and compassion to those most in need of help all across the world. This is her remarkable story.
Praise for Always the Children
'A magnificent life story. I feel humbled by Anne Watts' experiences' Jennifer Worth, author of Call the Midwife
'[An] extraordinarily uplifting memoir' Sue Arnold, Guardian

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse, eager to use her skills. Her father expected her to work locally, not too far from North Wales, where Anne had grown up, and to then settle down and have children. However, Anne had inherited her father's adventurous spirit and at the first opportunity she set sail for Canada to work in the remote stations in the frozen north of the country. She found a placement easily, among the indigenous Inuit people. With the whole world to explore, Anne later headed for Alice Springs in the Australian outback. She speaks eloquently about what it was like to be a nurse and midwife among a tough cattle-ranching community who lived in close proximity with Australia's Aboriginal people. Anne's eyes were opened to their skills at surviving the harshest of environments, but also to the prejudices they suffered. Forty years later, Anne returned to both countries to see how life has changed in Eskimo Point and Alice Springs, and what has become of its people and landscape.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Paragon
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1471309894
• ISBN 13: 9781471309892
• Reliure: Broché