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Adrift on an ice-pan

On Easter Sunday, 1908, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell was summoned to treat a boy with osteomyelitis who had been operated on two weeks earlier. The young man needed immediate attention to save not only his leg but his life, so the doctor set out from St. Anthony, Newfoundland, with his komatik and his eight best dogs. To save a few miles, Dr. Grenfell took a shortcut across a bay, but the ice broke up beneath him, his komatik sank, and one dog drowned. He and the other dogs climbed out of the water onto an ice pan, which drifted out to sea in an offshore wind. In the cold and solitude of a day and a night on the ice, the doctor was now in peril. Frostbitten and snow-blind, he turned to his remaining dogs and performed one final, desperate act in an attempt to save his life. Adrift on an Ice Pan is the best known of the autobiographical accounts of Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, the famous Labrador doctor. Originally published in 1909, it has sparked much discussion over Dr. Grenfell's character: his legendary ingenuity, evangelical faith, and love of adventure

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Título:
Adrift on an ice-pan / Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Editorial:
St. John's, NL : Flanker Press Limited, [2016]
2016
Descripción física:
1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Contenido:
Intro; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Adrift on an Ice Pan; Photos; Appendix; The Rescuers' Story; Grenfell Biographical Sketch; About the Contributor
Copyright/Depósito Legal:
1082527132 1264779020 1417415727
ISBN:
9781771175876 ( electronic bk.)
1771175877 ( electronic bk.)
9781771175852 ( electronic bk.)
1771175850 ( electronic bk.)
9781771175845 ( pbk.)
1771175842
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Newfoundland and Labrador. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRj6FK7FhT3gvdW8GRyM

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