Author: Melissa Pritchard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781954276215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art. In lush, lyrical detail, Melissa Pritchard reveals Nightingale as a rebel who wouldn't relent--one whose extraordinary life offers a grand lesson in inspired will.
Flight of the Wild Swan
Author: Melissa Pritchard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781954276215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art. In lush, lyrical detail, Melissa Pritchard reveals Nightingale as a rebel who wouldn't relent--one whose extraordinary life offers a grand lesson in inspired will.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781954276215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art. In lush, lyrical detail, Melissa Pritchard reveals Nightingale as a rebel who wouldn't relent--one whose extraordinary life offers a grand lesson in inspired will.
The Wild Swan
Author: Dame Mary Gilmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Every-day Book
Author: William Hone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
The Every-day Book, Or
Vikings of the Stars
Author: Kingsmill Commander
Publisher: New York : H. Vinal Limited
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: New York : H. Vinal Limited
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands
Author: Charles St. John
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands
Author: Charles George William Saint-John
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The every-day book and table-book; or, Everlasting calendar of popular amusements
The Spectator
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.