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Mama Jude: An Australian Nurse's Extraordinary Other Life in Africa.
by Steel, Judy; Sexton, Michael (collaborator)
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0733324789
- ISBN 13
- 9780733324789
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney, Pymble: HarperCollins, 2009. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour photos, minor edgewear & creasing. 301 pp. This is the memoir of Judy Steel, a wife, mother and grandmother who spent her retirement years from nursing, working tirelessly in the slums of Kampala, Uganda. Affirming and inspiring, her story is about resilience and renewal in the face of poverty and death. Judy has set up a charitable organisation that helped establish a hospital and maternal health clinic, a physiotherapy centre, literacy school, microloan bank and farming infrastructure. Along the way, she earned the love and respect of the Kampala locals, who call her 'Mama Jude'.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27210
- Title
- Mama Jude: An Australian Nurse's Extraordinary Other Life in Africa.
- Author
- Steel, Judy; Sexton, Michael (collaborator)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0733324789
- ISBN 13
- 9780733324789
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, Pymble
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- australian biography, autobiography, society, health, nursing, nurses, medical care, education, rural, africa, uganda, kampala
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY;
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...