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A cruel paradise [[electronic resource] ] : journals of an international relief worker / / Leanne Olson



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Autore: Olson Leanne <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: A cruel paradise [[electronic resource] ] : journals of an international relief worker / / Leanne Olson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, : Insomniac Press, c1999
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
Disciplina: 361.77
363.34/988/092 21
Soggetto topico: Nurses - Canada
War relief
International relief
Nurses
War
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Introduction; The Beginning; Background; Liberia; Bosnia; Liverpool; Burundi; Zaire; Canada; MERLIN; The Great Lakes, Again...; Angola; Back to Liberia; Albania; Liberia, Full Circle; Not Quite the End; Glossary of Terms
Sommario/riassunto: These are the journals of Leanne Olson, a Canadian nurse who for four years worked in war zones around the world, delivering medicine in Bosnia, supporting rural hospitals in Africa, providing aid to people in need. She was one of the first foreigners on the scene of the Mokoto massacre in Zaire, where more than a hundred people were killed by machete-wielding Hutus. She spent one Christmas pinned down by Serbian heavy artillery with a troop of Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers. She immunized thousands of children in rural Liberia. And she has witnessed the quick progress of ethnic cleansing, watchi
Titolo autorizzato: A cruel paradise  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-91097-6
9786610910977
1-4593-0950-2
1-897414-89-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784299003321
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