Nobody's Child A Woman's Abusive Past and the Inspiring Dream that Led Her to Rescue the Street Children in Saigon by Noble, Christina with Robert Coram - 1994

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Corgi, Great Britain, 1995. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. On the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, the destitute children swarm and the rich turn a blind eye. To these needy children "Mama Tina" has become an irrepressible, unorthodox and staunch champion. Within two years of arriving she has opened a Medical and Social Centre and achieved worldwide fame. Bu she berates all those who call her a "Mother Teresa". In her own words she is "one street child using her wiles to help other street children". Christina's story is punctuated by flashes of humour and exurberance that are both her trademark and her means of survival. 316 pages. Pages browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0552142883. ISBN/EAN: 9780552142885. Inventory No: 250395. . 9780552142885

London England: Corgi, 1995. Paperback. Her childhood in the Dublin slums barely merits the name: after the early death of her mother the family is split apart, their alcoholic father unable to care for them. Christina is sexually abused and later escapes fron an orphanage only to become destitute on the streets of Dublin. At sixteen she is pulled into a car by four men and raped repeatedly. Later, driven to near insanity by overwork and a violent husband, she finds in a dream the will to fight back. And here the most extraordinary part of her story begins, on the streets of Ho Chi Mingh City, where destitute children swarm and the rich turn a blind eye. To these needy children 'Mama Tina' became, and remains to this day, an irrepressible, unorthodox and staunch champion. Illustrated. 316 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 1st Corgi Edition. Soft Cover.… Read More

J. Murray, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The jacket is a bit sunned and it is slightly shelf and edge worn. There is a 3cm closed tear on the bottom front corner. There is a small inscription on the front end page mostly hidden by the flap of the jacket and a tipped in 'This book belongs to' plate with flowers on it, the previous owners name is written on it. The pages within are crisp, clean and tightly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Corgi Edition, Transworld Publishers, 1997. Reprint . Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Creases on base corners of covers. Minor creases on base corners of the last few pages.

London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1994. pp. 10, 243. b/w illustrations. A few spots to edges, sunned spine, contents clean and tight. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.