Diary of a Nurse in South Africa: Being a Narrative of Experiences in the Boer and English Hospital Service
Alice Bron
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Nov. 27, 2017)
Excerpt from Diary of a Nurse in South Africa: Being a Narrative of Experiences in the Boer and English Hospital ServiceThis book is a record of personal impressions written on the spur of the moment. I think it best to give them practically word for word, with all their absence of restraint, and their perhaps too familiar tone, so as to preserve that spontaneity and vigour which an effort of memory, assisted by too brief notes, can never supply. A section of the public may perhaps regret that this book contains no melodrama or exciting stories of adventure, with the author as heroine. I am very sorry, both for the public and myself, but, being a submissive slave to the strict truth, I can only relate facts and, furthermore, my nature is so defective that the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.