Healing in the Wilderness: A History of the United Church Mission Hospitals

by Bob Burrows

Book Overview

This unforgettable story reveals how medical missionaries responded to crises, emergencies and sudden illnesses--including grizzly bear attacks and airplane crashes--without modern technology or urban hospitals. It portrays the small missions and infirmaries and tells how their staff handled life and death in the deep bush, on mountain ranges, in Native villages, on trackless prairies and on distant islands. It describes the sacrifices of devoted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550173383
• ISBN13: 9781550173383
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.6"