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The Best of Wilfred Grenfell

by (author) Wilfred Grenfell

edited by William Pope

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Initial publish date
May 2006
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551095813
    Publish Date
    May 2006
    List Price
    $22.95

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True life stories of the heroic efforts of people by a man as legendary as his subject. In the fifty years since his death, Wilfred Grenfell has become a folk hero-a missionary doctor who served the northern reaches of Newfoundland and Labrador.

About the authors

Wilfred Grenfell was born in Parkgate, England, in 1865. He studied medicine and later volunteered to go to Newfoundland and Labrador, where he quickly gained great respect among the people. He established a mission, an orphanage, and a school at St. Anthony, Labrador. His tale Adrift on an Ice Pan (1908, 1992) is an account of how he was stranded overnight on the ice. He died in 1941.

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