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Florence Nightingale : The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge
$59.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The soldier's saviour, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer - and much else besides - Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of historical characters who are instantly recognisable. As the Lady with the Lamp, ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean Wa ...Show more
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'SUPERB' Sunday Times 'ENGROSSING' History Today 'EXCELENT'Spectator 'ENTHRALLING' GuardianWHO WAS THE LADY WITH THE LAMP? WHERE DID THE LEGEND COME FROM? AND WHAT WAS THE TRUTH?From her battles with family, doctors, nurses and the British establishment to her ceaseless work on behalf of the sick, the w ...Show more
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, mi ...Show more
The Fateful Year: England 1914 by Mark Bostridge
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchild ...Show more
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