Labrador Doctor: My Life with the Grenfell Mission

by W.A. Paddon, Anthony Paddon, W. A. Paddon

Book Overview

Driving dog teams through the icy heart of a northern winter, bracing against the flimsy bulkhead of a frail ship battered by storms, removing an appendix on a heaving vessel while bluebottle flies buzz overhead--hard training for a future Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. Such conditions were routine, however, for the pioneering doctors of Sir Wilfrid Grenfell's medical mission. Tony Paddon here recounts the story of his remarkable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887801609
• ISBN13: 9780887801600
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Goodread Biographies
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Labrador doctor

stunning stoty of Life on the Labrador by one of the finest Doctors ever in Labrador History.