In full flight: a story of Africa and atonement
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9781524732974
9780525434535
9780525434535
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| Grouping Title | in full flight a story of africa and atonement |
| Grouping Author | john hylan heminway |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2024-02-26 17:12:13PM |
| Last Indexed | 2024-05-18 03:18:43AM |
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"A woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II -- and a heroic career that hid a secret past. Over the span of fifty years, Dr. Anne Spoerry, French by birth, treated hundreds of thousands of individuals across rural Kenya. A member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Spoerry earned the cherished nickname "Mama Daktari"--"Mother Doctor"--from the people of Kenya. Yet few knew what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa. Now, in the first comprehensive story of her life, her revered selflessness gives way to a past marked by rebellion and submission, during which she earned another nickname--this one sinister working as a "doctor" in a Nazi concentration camp. In Full Flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one's troubled past simply by doing good in the present. Informed by Spoerry's own journals, a trove of previously untapped files, and numerous interviews with those who knew her in Europe or Africa, John Heminway takes readers on a remarkable journey through Africa and into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone"--
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9781524732974
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2018
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Alfred A. Knopf
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Aeronautics in medicine -- Africa
Humanitarian assistance -- Africa
Spoerry, Anne, -- 1918-1999
Women physicians -- Africa -- Biography
Humanitarian assistance -- Africa
Spoerry, Anne, -- 1918-1999
Women physicians -- Africa -- Biography
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In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
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In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement / John Heminway
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In full flight
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a story of Africa and atonement
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Aeronautics in medicine
Humanitarian assistance
Spoerry, Anne
Women physicians
Humanitarian assistance
Spoerry, Anne
Women physicians
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