How Great Thine Aunt
Autor John Thompson-Grayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 ian 2018
Margaret was called to Korea as an educator from 1910 to 1940. During the Mansei Uprising, Japanese police arrested her for inciting to riot and drove Kim Il-Sung into Manchuria where he founded Korean Communism.
Jean gave up a promising career in surgery at the Women's Hospital in Melbourne to practise at a mission hospital in Chinju, Korea. Sent home as a foreign alien before the attack on Pearl Harbor she practised at outback mission stations in Australia, doubling as the Flying Doctor. She medically examined the population of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) as a first step to rid the country of leprosy. Jean returned to Pukatja in South Australia during British nuclear bomb testing at Maralinga.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780987258564
ISBN-10: 0987258567
Pagini: 310
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Publicious Pty Ltd
ISBN-10: 0987258567
Pagini: 310
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Publicious Pty Ltd
Notă biografică
John Thompson-Gray has degrees in Science from UQ St Lucia, Education from Monash University and a Masters in Engineering from RMIT. In 2009, at International House, Cambridge, he achieved honours in Macroeconomics, Public Policy and the Short Story as an art form. While writing this book, John went back to Cambridge to up-skill in life and travel writing. He is a member of Queensland's English Speaking Union and a speaker in the events calendar at the Shrine of Remembrance Melbourne. His published works are bestseller Japanese Blitz on Darwin February 19, 1942 and Love luck and Larceny: Memoirs from Broome 1942. John's earlier background was Commonwealth Public Servant, Master at Scotch College Melbourne, University Lecturer at Swinburne, and Superintendent of Operational Research with BHP Ltd.