Dr leader stirling (6 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Good. 128 pages. illustrated by Walter Law (illustratore).

Condizione: Good. 1947. No edition remarks. 128 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations by Walter Law. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine. Some rubbing and marking.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. Leader worked as a missionary and surgeon in what was to become Tanzania, he set-up two hospitals and was responsible to starting to train local women as nurses in what became the Tanzanian health service. Includes several chapter heading sketches. 128pp. Brown cloth boards with lightly sunned spine and slight soiling. Law, Walter (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Not First Edition. Missing DJ, slight soiling to boards, corners lightlt bumped, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Yellow cloth boards with black lettering to spine and elephant's head motif to front board, map endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; B&W Illustrations; 128 pages; An illustrated series of letters written between May 1935 and November 1946 describing the life of a missionary doctor in the former Tanganyika Territory. Illustrated by Law, Walter (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, minor marks and edge worn. The text within the book is clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of very bright unsunned jacket and spine, some very light dust staining to back jacket, yellow cloth boards slightly cockled, not price clipped (6/-), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 128pp, illustrated, map endpapers. Leader Dominic Stirling (1906-2003), was a pioneering missionary surgeon and former Health Minister in Tanzania. During his medical missionary career, he emphasised the training of local nurses, establishing a precedent for official nurse recognition in Tanzania. His experience in Africa eventually led him to the political career, and in 1958 Leader Stirling was elected (unopposed) to the first Parliament of Tanzania. He held this position for the next 22 years, the last 5 as Health Minister by appointment of Julius Nyerere. Quite a scarce book. Jacket and illustrations by Walter Law (illustratore).…