Florence Nightingale

by Cecil Woodham-Smith

$30 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods

Softcover, New York: Atheneum, 1983. Very Good+. Black and white photos. This gracefully written and extremely readable biography has the power and intensity of a fine novel. It is also a first-class contribution to social history, for it gives an extraordinary insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the British and their Empire in the nineteenth century. It establishes Florence Nightingale as one of the really remarkable

• Binding: Softcover

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