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A Nurse Abroad : Adventures in nursing, from the Arctic to the Outback, Paperback / softback Book

A Nurse Abroad : Adventures in nursing, from the Arctic to the Outback Paperback / softback

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In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse, eager to use her skills.

Her father expected her to work locally, not too far from North Wales, where Anne had grown up, and to then settle down and have children.

However, Anne had inherited her father's adventurous spirit and at the first opportunity she set sail for Canada to work in the remote stations in the frozen north of the country.

She found a placement easily, among the indigenous Inuit people.

With the whole world to explore, Anne later headed for Alice Springs in the Australian outback.

She speaks eloquently about what it was like to be a nurse and midwife among a tough cattle-ranching community who lived in close proximity with Australia's Aboriginal people.

Anne's eyes were opened to their skills at surviving the harshest of environments, but also to the prejudices they suffered.

Forty years later, Anne returned to both countries to see how life has changed in Eskimo Point and Alice Springs, and what has become of its people and landscape.

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