Mary Seacole (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781913368098)

Biography of Mary Seacole, a pioneering nineteenth-century British-Jamaican nurse.

Mary Seacole's remarkable life began in Jamaica, where she was born a free person, the daughter of a black mother and white Scottish army officer. Ron Ramdin--who, like Seacole, was born in the Caribbean and emigrated to the United Kingdom--tells the remarkable story of this woman, celebrated today as a pioneering nurse.

Refused permission to serve as an army nurse, Seacole took the remarkable step of funding her own journey to the Crimean battlefront, and there, in the face of sometimes harsh opposition, she established a hotel for wounded British soldiers. Unlike Florence Nightingale--whose exploits saw her venerated as the "lady with the lamp" for generations afterward--Seacole cared for soldiers perilously close to the fighting. As Ramdin shows in this biography, Seacole's time in Crimea, for which she is best known, was only the pinnacle of a life of adventure and travel.

Author: Ron Ramdin
ISBN-10: 1913368092
ISBN-13: 9781913368098
Publisher: Haus Pub.
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2021
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d