Blue Ribbons, Bitter Bread : The Life Of Joice Nankivell Loch by Susanna De Vries

Paperback. Very Good.

Alexandria, NSW : Hale & Iremonger, 2000. First edition . Softcover. Good Condition. Trade paperback size. Binding is tight and spine fully intact Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy All edges neat and clean Joice Loch was an extraordinary Australian. She had the inspired courage that saved many hundreds of Jews and Poles in World War II, the compassion that made her a self-trained doctor to tens of thousands of refugees, the incredible grit that took her close to death in several theatres of war, and the dedication to truth and justice that shone forth in her own books and a lifetime of astonishing heroism. Born in a cyclone in 1887 on a Queensland sugar plantation, she grew up in grinding poverty in Gippsland and emerged from years of unpaid drudgery by writing a children's book and freelance journalism. In 1918 she married Sydney Loch, Gallipoli veteran and writer, with whom she was commissioned to produce a… Read More

Sydney, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 2000 Book. New. Trade Paperback. 1st. Australian Ed... Joice Nankivell was born in Australia and during her long and eventful life was in Ireland during the troubles, joined with her husband Stanley Loch in the Quaker missions that were sent to help the Polish devastated by World War I, and then to Greece to assist with the population displaced from Asia Minor. After which she and her husband settled into an old Byzantine tower at Prosforion, on the border with Mt.Athos where she established a rug weaving workshop for the refugee women. During World War II she helped Jewish refugees get to Israel.. Well deserving her status as "the most decorated Australian woman." 360p.plates[some color] maps.

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