Flight of the Wild Swan
Book - 2024 Fiction / Pritchard, Melissa, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Pritchard, Melissa None on shelf 37 requests on 3 copies
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"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 her life'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"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2024.
Year Published: 2024
Description: 413 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781954276215
SUBJECTS
Nightingale, Florence, -- 1820-1910 -- Fiction.
Nurses -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.