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"Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From her adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill herlife's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectation, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won celebrity as a battlefield...
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Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
59 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Florence Nightingale decided as a teenager that she wanted to become a nurse, her parents tried to talk her out of it, claiming that it wasn't a suitable profession for a woman. But she persisted in her career and went on to save countless lives of patients, especially of soldiers. Known as "The Lady with the Lamp," she is widely considered to be the founder of modern nursing"--
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Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Join cousins Patrick and Beth as they race to discover how a deadly cholera infection is being spread. Many in London have died. Dr. John Snow is a scientist. He is sure he knows how to keep people from getting sick. Curate Henry Whitehead disagrees. So does Nurse Florence Nightingale. Can the disease be stopped before Patrick gets sick?"--
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