Walking Free.
by Al Muderis, Munjed; Weaver, Patrick (with)
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1760110728
- ISBN 13
- 9781760110727
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2014. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white & colour photos, few sepia (brown-tinted) photos, bottom corner tip front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 325 pp. First edition. This memoir by Munjed Al Muderis is the true story of a young doctor who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, spent months in a detention centre, and went on to become a pioneering surgeon regarding artificial limbs for amputees, at the forefront of medicine in Australia, but nevertheless controversial. (1 of 2 available copies.).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28277
- Title
- Walking Free.
- Author
- Al Muderis, Munjed; Weaver, Patrick (with)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1760110728
- ISBN 13
- 9781760110727
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- australian biography, autobiography, health, medicine, ethnicity, middle east, iraq, iraqi-australians
- Bookseller catalogs
- ETHNICITY & CROSSCULTURAL;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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