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01904aam a2200337 i 4500 001 199F5CB8E5B611EE96AABEA640ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240319010056 008 230523s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023003089 020 $a 1954276214 : PAP 020 $a 9781954276215 : PAP 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IMmBT $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3566.R578 $b F58 2024 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23/eng/20230523 100 1 $a Pritchard, Melissa, $e author. 245 10 $a Flight of the wild swan / $c Melissa Pritchard. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bellevue Literary Press, $c 2024. 300 $a 413 pages : $b illustration ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "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 nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art. In lush, lyrical detail, Melissa Pritchard reveals Nightingale as a rebel who wouldn't relent-one whose extraordinary life offers a grand lesson in inspired will"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Nightingale, Florence, $d 1820-1910 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 5 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524010400.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012736.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240402012051.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240402011841.0 952 $l ZKPC437 $d 20240319011636.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=199F5CB8E5B611EE96AABEA640ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search