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- PublisherImprint unknown
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0723303754
- ISBN 13 9780723303756
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages374
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Nurse in the North
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Whitcombe and Tombs
(1973)
ISBN 10: 0723303754
ISBN 13: 9780723303756
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 163 pages. dj worn.This highly readable book describes some o f the experiences, amusing and otherwise, of a district nurse in a remote and quite unique corner of New Zealand. The time was abo ut thirty years ago -- the 1940s -- and the district concerned la y just south of the Hokianga Harbour, Northland, with the Waiopou a Forest cutting it off from places further south. This was withi n the area presided over by Dr George McCall Smith, the redoubtab le, unconventional backblocks doctor, writer and medical pioneer, then nearing the end of his long period of devoted service to th e Hokianga. The roads were rough and gravelly, there was no elect ricity and the population of the district was five-sixths Maori - - lovable people but still just getting accustomed to Pakeha ways . From these ingredients Barbara Ancott-Johnson has prepared a re al Hokianga for the reader -- the chunky meat sandwiches beloved of Dr Smith became known as Hokiangas. The meat in this sandwich is undoubtedly Dr Smith himself, or Jock as his nurses called him . Her account is invaluable alone as a first hand study of this r emarkable man. But the fresh bread and butter of this book is her own story of district nursing under primitive conditions -- her dealings with situations, crises and people, with the Maori peopl e, old and young, taking pride of place .--Inside front cover. Seller Inventory # 2657q
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Nurse in the North with Dr. G. M. Smith in the Hokianga
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Whitcombe & Tombs, Christchurch
(1973)
ISBN 10: 0723303754
ISBN 13: 9780723303756
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 037772
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