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Daktar: Diplomat in Bangladesh
by Viggo Olsen, MD, Jeanette Lockerbie
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0802417450
- ISBN 13
- 9780802417459
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL : Moody Press, 1973 Moody Press, Chicago, IL. 1973. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; trace shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; Price Clipped; chipping and missing small pieces at the bottom edges of the panels; toning to spine; small closed tears to top edge. Brick red cloth boards and spine with bright gilt letters on the spine. Maps as endpapers. 352 pp 8vo. This book is a powerful, enthralling story of a brilliant surgeon skilled in diplomacy. Dr. Olsen was a physician in Bangladesh during the Pakistan/Bangladesh War of the early 1970s. This book tells of his childhood, his education, and his decision to practice medicine in East Pakistan. He recounts the developments to medical care he instituted and the increase in care that he achieved. The war between Bangladesh and West Pakistan was brutal and he tells of the story of his survival and his efforts to help the new nation grow and develop. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016050
- Title
- Daktar: Diplomat in Bangladesh
- Author
- Viggo Olsen, MD, Jeanette Lockerbie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0802417450
- ISBN 13
- 9780802417459
- Publisher
- Moody Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Bangladesh, Pakistan, East Pakistan, Bangladesh War, physican, volunteer medical clinics, doctors without borders, missionary, Christian diplomat, Viggo Olsen, medical missions, translator, spiritual pilgrimage, Civil War, West Pakistan, India, religion,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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