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Edition: 1
Release: 1998-07-06
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0801859581
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
The Primeval Forest (The Albert Schweitzer Library) pdf
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"There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man."—Albert Einstein, on Albert SchweitzerIn July of 1913, thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his position as a respected professor at the University of Strasbourg and celebrated authority on music and philosophy in order to go as a physician to French Equatorial Africa (present-day Gabon). The Primeval Forest is Schweitzer's own fascinating story of these eventful years—a thrilling tale of his amazingly successful attempt to practice modern medicine and surgery in the face of wild elephant raids, marauding leopards, famine, an flood—a story rich in human interest and high drama.Schweitzer describes how he and his wife, a qualified nurse, worked to establish a hospital in the steaming jungle at Lambaréné. At first they treated patients in the open air, amid unbelievably primitive conditions—with few drugs, medicines, or adequate instruments. But they worked tirelessly, caring for as many as forty Download The Primeval Forest (The Albert Schweitzer Library) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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