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Written in 1857, this autobiography of Mary Seacole is a book you will not want to put it down. Mary's life had intention, bravery, and persistence. During the Crimean War Seacole offered to volunteer as a nurse to wounded soldiers, however she was met with racism and refusals. Unphased by the response, she went independently to the Crimea where she became not only a nurse, but a caregiver to wounded soldiers. Her journey is filled with ...

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Mary Seacole was acquainted with the healing traditions of African and Caribbean doctresses through the work of her mother. After years of working as a nurse in Jamaica and Panama, she opened a hotel for soldiers fighting in the Crimean War. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of Mary Seacole.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely before arriving in London, where her offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war was met with racism and refusal.

In der Hoffnung, bei Ausbruch des Krimkriegs bei der Pflege der Verwundeten helfen zu können, beantragte die in Jamaika geborene Kreolin Mary Seacole beim Kriegsministerium, in das Krankenpflegekontingent aufgenommen zu werden. Das wurde abgelehnt. So reiste sie selbständig auf die Krim, richtete ein Hotel ein und pflegte die Verwundeten auf dem Schlachtfeld.Obwohl ihre Landsleute anfangs misstrauisch waren, erkannten sie bald, wie wichtig Sea...

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Mary Seacole was acquainted with the healing traditions of African and Caribbean doctresses through the work of her mother. After years of working as a nurse in Jamaica and Panama, she opened a hotel for soldiers fighting in the Crimean War. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of Mary Seacole.

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Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all. Mary Seacole - traveller, nurse, businesswoman and radical for her time - defied a prejudiced British government to care for soldiers wounded during the Crimean War. This ground breaking account, written by Seacole in 1857, brings to life her incredible journey from Jamaica to Central America and England, and then on to modern-day Ukraine, where she act...

A far cry from the nineteenth-century slave narrative tradition, this book, written in 1857, is a special kind of success story. With delightful urbanity and wit, Mary Seacole, a free-born Jamaican Creole, recounts her childhood as a daughter of a Scottish army officer and a free black boarding-house keeper, her years as a storekeeper in a Central American frontier town, and her role as a battlefield `doctress' to British troops in the Crimean...

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The memoirs of a Jamaican nurse, famed for her work among the sick and wounded of the Crimean War, offer the unique perspective of a Victorian-era black woman at a battlefield's front line.

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An unsung heroine of the Crimean War The flickering light that emanated from Florence Nightingale's lamp penetrated more darkness than she or anyone else of her time will have imagined. It illuminated the appalling deficiencies in the care of wounded and sick British servicemen on campaign during the Victorian era and it propelled 'the lady with the lamp' to well deserved fame in her own time and ever afterwards. It is therefore unfortunate th...