Higgins, Clarinda
How Albert Schweitzer Inspired a Young Man's JourneySignatur: M001-B681-D001-B021;
Buchart: Paperback
Verlag: Oakham Press, Westport, CT (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
Veröffentlichung: 2025
Auflage: 2.Auflage
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 246
Format: gr. 8°
Größe (HxBXT): 22,8 x 15,3 cm x 1,6 cm
ISBN 13: 978-0692299531
ISBN 10: 069229953X
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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
0. Foreword; 1. Welcome to Africa; 2. Le Grand Docteur; 3. Lambaréné; 4. The Golden Boy; 5. Tranquility at the Pond; 6. A Gap Year; 7. Secrets in the Jungle; 8. The Path to Independence; 9. From the Hearts of Gabon; 10. Knights on a Chessboard; 11. Upstream; 12. Into the Heart of Darkness; 13. Recovery; 14. Legacies and Lifetimes; 15. Personal Reflections
0. Acknowledgements; 1. Appendix; 2. Bibliography; 3. Index; 4. Credits; 5, About the Authors
Kurzbeschreibung:
"A bright young man rejects his father's expectation that he will take over the family steel buisness in Massachusetts. Right out of prep school, 18-year-old Mark Higgins seeks his own destiny in faraway Africa. He finds fullfillment working as a medical technician and treating lepers for Albert Schweitzer, teh Nobel Peace laureate and medical missionary who created a jungle clinic in Gabon. [...]"
Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"Albert Schweitzer was one of the most admired men of the Twentieth century. As a young scholar in Europe, he earned acclaim for his achievements in music, philosophy and theology. He set aside those careers to embark on a new profession as a medical missionary in Gabon, Africa. There, one hundred years ago, he developed an ethical credo called "Reverence for Life" that governed all of his subsequent actions and inspired the world. For that and for his humanitarian work, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. [...]"
0. Foreword; 1. Welcome to Africa; 2. Le Grand Docteur; 3. Lambaréné; 4. The Golden Boy; 5. Tranquility at the Pond; 6. A Gap Year; 7. Secrets in the Jungle; 8. The Path to Independence; 9. From the Hearts of Gabon; 10. Knights on a Chessboard; 11. Upstream; 12. Into the Heart of Darkness; 13. Recovery; 14. Legacies and Lifetimes; 15. Personal Reflections
0. Acknowledgements; 1. Appendix; 2. Bibliography; 3. Index; 4. Credits; 5, About the Authors
Kurzbeschreibung:
"A bright young man rejects his father's expectation that he will take over the family steel buisness in Massachusetts. Right out of prep school, 18-year-old Mark Higgins seeks his own destiny in faraway Africa. He finds fullfillment working as a medical technician and treating lepers for Albert Schweitzer, teh Nobel Peace laureate and medical missionary who created a jungle clinic in Gabon. [...]"
Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"Albert Schweitzer was one of the most admired men of the Twentieth century. As a young scholar in Europe, he earned acclaim for his achievements in music, philosophy and theology. He set aside those careers to embark on a new profession as a medical missionary in Gabon, Africa. There, one hundred years ago, he developed an ethical credo called "Reverence for Life" that governed all of his subsequent actions and inspired the world. For that and for his humanitarian work, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. [...]"