The Primeval Forest

By:

Albert Schweitzer

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Albert Schweitzer Library

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The author of this text tells how, in July of 1913, as a 38-year-old medical doctor, he gave up his position as a respected professor at the University of Strasbourg and celebrated authority on music and philosophy in order to go as a physician to French Equatorial Africa (present day Gabon). The text is Schweitzer's own story of these years - a tale of his successful attempt to practice modern medicine and surgery in the face of wild elephants raids, marauding leopards, famine, flood and local superstition and ignorance. Scweitzer describes how he and his wife, a qualified nurse, worked to establish a hospital in the steaming jungle at Lambarene.

Author Biography:

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. While still a young man he demonstrated extraordinary abilities in a wide range of pursuits, including science, theology, and music. In 1908 he published his magisterial study of the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach. He studied medicine from 1905 to 1913 at the University of Strasbourg, then founded a hospital in French Equatorial Africa, where he spent most of the remainder of his life. Schweitzer used his Nobel Prize stipend to expand the hospital and to build a leper colony. His book The Quest of the Historical Jesus is also available from Johns Hopkins.

Release date Australia

September 25th, 1998

Author

Albert Schweitzer

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Foreword by William W. Foege

Pages

240

Series

The Albert Schweitzer Library

Dimensions

140x216x14

ISBN-13

9780801859588

Product ID

2837632

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