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Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse
Catherine Reef
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Description for Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse
Hardcover. This riveting biography explores the exceptional life of Florence Nightingale. She is best known for her work during the Crimean War, when she vastly improved gruesome and deadly conditions and made nightly rounds to visit patients, becoming known around the world as the Lady with the Lamp. Includes notes, bibliography, and index. Num Pages: 192 pages, black and white, colour archival images. BIC Classification: YNM. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 215 x 301 x 18. Weight in Grams: 810.
Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they don't know her full story. She is best known for her work during the Crimean War, when she vastly improved gruesome and deadly conditions and made nightly rounds to visit patients, becoming known around the world as the Lady with the Lamp. Her tireless and inspiring work continued after the war, and her modern methods in nursing became the defining standards still used today. Includes notes, bibliography, and index.
Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they don't know her full story. She is best known for her work during the Crimean War, when she vastly improved gruesome and deadly conditions and made nightly rounds to visit patients, becoming known around the world as the Lady with the Lamp. Her tireless and inspiring work continued after the war, and her modern methods in nursing became the defining standards still used today. Includes notes, bibliography, and index.
Product Details
Publisher
Clarion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
809 g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780544535800
SKU
V9780544535800
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Catherine Reef
Catherine Reef is the award-winning author of more than forty nonfiction books, including many highly praised biographies for young people. She lives in College Park, MD. Visit her website at www.catherinereef.com.
Reviews for Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse
With careful contextualization that sometimes goes missing from purely hagiographic presentations, this title offers a fuller picture of the effort and emotional price Nighingale paid to become a groundbreaker.
Bulletin, starred review
A vividly written, richly layered portrait of a fascinating woman whose life and work influenced and inspired ... Read more