A cruel paradise : journals of an international relief worker / Leanne Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Leanne, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurses--Canada--Diaries.

Nurses.

War relief.

International relief.

Nurses--Personal narratives.

War--Personal narratives.

War.

Médecins sans frontières (Association).

Olson, Leanne, 1963---Diaries.

Olson, Leanne.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Insomniac Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These are the journals of Leanne Olson, a Canadian nurse who for four years worked in war zones around the world, delivering medicine in Bosnia, supporting rural hospitals in Africa, providing aid to people in need. She was one of the first foreigners on the scene of the Mokoto massacre in Zaire, where more than a hundred people were killed by machete-wielding Hutus. She spent one Christmas pinned down by Serbian heavy artillery with a troop of Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers. She immunized thousands of children in rural Liberia. And she has witnessed the quick progress of ethnic cleansing, watchi

Contents:

Table of Contents; Introduction; The Beginning; Background; Liberia; Bosnia; Liverpool; Burundi; Zaire; Canada; MERLIN; The Great Lakes, Again...; Angola; Back to Liberia; Albania; Liberia, Full Circle; Not Quite the End; Glossary of Terms

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-91097-6

9786610910977

1-4593-0950-2

1-897414-89-7

OCLC:

347376198