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03472aam a22005534i 4500 001 B653A146115411E88690CA2497128E48 003 SILO 005 20211216010143 008 170725t20182018nyuaf 000 0beng 010 $a 2017021058 020 $a 0525434534 020 $a 9780525434535 020 $a 1524732974 020 $a 9781524732974 035 $a (OCoLC)987431615 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d GK8 $d OCL $d GDK $d FM0 $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a R507.S64 $b H46 2018 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a HIS043000 $a TRV002000 $a HIS043000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Heminway, John Hylan, $d 1944- $e author. 245 10 $a In full flight : $b a story of Africa and atonement / $c John Heminway. 250 $a First edition 264 1 $a spoerry, anneNew York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2018. 300 $a 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographic references (pages 279-314). 505 0 $a Prologue: The end -- That's all I'll say -- If -- La Coquille -- We are finished -- A Pukka place -- The emergency -- The piper -- Miss Mary -- L'enfer des femmes -- Begin the beguine -- Dr. Claude -- No. 40 flat heels -- Rabble of Communist fomenters -- The scorecard -- The wrong side of the binoculars -- I know what I'm doing -- I'll be back -- Hiding in full view -- In memoriam, Africa. 520 $a "A woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II -- and a heroic career that hid a secret past. Over the span of fifty years, Dr. Anne Spoerry, French by birth, treated hundreds of thousands of individuals across rural Kenya. A member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Spoerry earned the cherished nickname "Mama Daktari"--"Mother Doctor"--the people of Kenya. Yet few knew what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa. Now, in the first comprehensive story of her life, her revered selflessness gives way to a past marked by rebellion and submission, during which she earned another nickname--this one sinister working as a "doctor" in a Nazi concentration camp. In Full Flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one's troubled past simply by doing good in the present. Informed by Spoerry's own journals, a trove of previously untapped files, and numerous interviews with those who knew her in Europe or Africa, John Heminway takes readers on a remarkable journey through Africa and into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Spoerry, Anne, $d 1918-1999. 650 0 $a Women physicians $z Africa $v Biography. 650 0 $a Aeronautics in medicine $z Africa. 650 0 $a Humanitarian assistance $z Africa. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 12 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014033.0 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111011542.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204091340.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110073231.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20190417011007.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006113546.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20180830012225.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720050848.0 952 $l NXPA663 $d 20180711044342.0 952 $l KOPC446 $d 20180307031020.0 952 $l ZYPE837 $d 20180301011117.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180214010114.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B653A146115411E88690CA2497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search