Grenfell of Labrador: A Biography - Brossura

Rompkey, Ronald

 
9780802077882: Grenfell of Labrador: A Biography
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ISBN 10: 0802077889 ISBN 13: 9780802077882
Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 1993

Sinossi

When the 23-year-old British Doctor Wilfred Grenfell first set foot in Newfoundland in 1892, bent upon serving migrant fishermen, he had no clear idea who his patients were or how they lived there. But his first few weeks on the Labrador coast changed all that. Moved by its natural beauty and the lack of the most elementary comforts, he was seized by a desire for reform and devoted the rest of his life to the task. At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, Grenfell would become the instrument of philanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic and a beloved symbol of unselfish service.

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Recensione

A portrait of a complex man whose genius was made of equal parts of maddening child and authoritarian adult, Victorian dreamer and twentieth-century achiever.' - Timothy Findley, Globe and Mail

L'autore

RONALD ROMPKEY is Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Editore
Univ of Toronto Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1993
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0802077889
ISBN 13 
9780802077882
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
448
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780802059192: Grenfell of Labrador: A Biography

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ISBN 10:  0802059198 ISBN 13:  9780802059192
Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 1993
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