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Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread: The Life of Joice Nankivell Loch (Joice Loch: Australia's Most Heroic Woman).
by De Vries, Susanna
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1925281787
- ISBN 13
- 9781925281781
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Brisbane: Pirgos Press, 2016. 7th ed.. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, black & white text-photos centre spread, minor edgewear. 357 pp. Joice Loch was 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, author of a banned book on Gallipoli. They moved to Ireland, then to Poland to work with the Quakers, then to Greece. Her inspired courage saved many Jews and Poles in World War 2. Her compassion made her a self-trained doctor to many thousands of refugees, and her incredible grit took her close to death several times. This biography is a tribute to one of Australia's most heroic women, who always spoke fondly of Queensland as her birthplace. Seventh edition, which contains a preface 'Smyrna 1922â, about the massacre and expulsion of Greeks from this Greek city in Turkey . (A printed copy of a POD book, that is, printed-on-demand.).
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18137
- Title
- Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread: The Life of Joice Nankivell Loch (Joice Loch: Australia's Most Heroic Woman).
- Author
- De Vries, Susanna
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 7th ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1925281787
- ISBN 13
- 9781925281781
- Publisher
- Pirgos Press
- Place of Publication
- Brisbane
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- australian biography, women journalists, women philanthropists, authors, world war 2 (ww2), jews, political refugees, europe, poland, russia, soviet union, greece, middle east, turkey
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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