Midwife of Borneo
SPCK Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-281-08030-4 (ISBN)
Call the Midwife' compellingly transposed from the East End of London to the Borneo jungle!
Newcastle 1959. Wendy Grey, a young district nurse, responds to a call for aid from Christians in one of the remotest corners of the world. Officially, she is employed as a health worker running a dispensary as part of the Anglican mission in Tongud, North East Borneo. However, as the only medical practitioner in the region - apart from local witchdoctors - she is obliged to carry out every procedure her patients require, or watch people die.
And so Wendy finds herself diagnosing diseases, performing operations (acting as both anaesthetist and surgeon) delivering babies and extracting teeth. When news reaches her of patients too sick to come to the dispensary, she undergoes long and arduous journeys, often travelling for hundreds of miles through the jungle in a dug-out canoe to reach them.
Back home, supporters are uplifted by Wendy's selfless, cheerful ministry, horrified by her accounts of close encounters with snakes and crocodiles, and stirred by her courage in the face of hitherto unimaginable challenges.
The young woman in Borneo is on the prayer list of every church in North East England.
Wendy Grey Rogerson, a district nurse, undertook pioneering work in Borneo under the auspices of SPG (now USPG) in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Shortly after returning to Newcastle, she married and had a family. Wendy and her husband still live in North East England. Barbara Fox grew up in Newcastle then moved to London where she worked as a journalist for the Radio Times and the Telegraph newspapers. She is the author of Is the Vicar in, Pet? (Sphere, 2014), When the War Is Over (Sphere, 2016), co-author of Bedpans and Bobby Socks (Sphere, 2011 - featured on Woman's Hour), and editor of Eve's War by Evelyn Shillington (Sphere, 2017).
List of photographs vii
Historical background x
Main characters xii
Wendy in North Borneo xviii
List of abbreviations xx
1 The longhouse: October to November 1959 1
2 'Who will go for us?' November to December 1959 14
3 A hut and a jamban: December 1959 to
April 1960 24
4 The operating theatre: May 1960 43
5 Travels with Arnold: May to June 1960 52
6 Rags and riches: June to July 1960 63
7 A hard chair and a bucket: July to August 1960 81
8 The mission cat: September to December 1960 93
9 A schoolboy surgeon: December 1960 to
May 1961 108
10 The first ice: May to June 1961 126
11 Travels with my mother: June to
September 1961 140
12 An intruder: September to October 1961 160
13 A view of the hills: October to December 1961 179
14 A maze of rivers: December 1961 to
February 1962 196
15 Signals: February to March 1962 207
16 Perfect days: March to May 1962 219
17 Wild horses: May to June 1962 229
18 Endings and beginnings: June to
October 1962 238
Afterword 255
Glossary of Malay and Dusun words 261
Boats used by Wendy 263
Acknowledgements 264
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.04.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-281-08030-5 / 0281080305 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-281-08030-4 / 9780281080304 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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