Walking Free
by Munjed Al Muderis with Patrick Weaver
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1760110728
- ISBN 13
- 9781760110727
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About This Item
Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2014. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. Munjed's choices were stark--comply and breach the medical oath 'do no harm', refuse and face certain death, or flee. That day, Munjed's life changed forever. He escaped to Indonesia, where he boarded a filthy, overcrowded refugee boat, bound for Australia. Like his fellow passengers, he hoped for a new life, free from fear and oppression, but for ten months he was incarcerated in what became known as the worst of the refugee camps, Curtin Detention Centre in Western Australia. There he was known only by a number, locked in solitary confinement and repeatedly told to go back to Iraq. On 26 August 2000, Munjed was finally freed. Now, fourteen years later, he is one of the world's leading osseointegration surgeons, transforming the lives of amputees with a pioneering technique that allows them to walk again. Walking Free is Munjed's extraordinary account of his journey from the brutality of Saddam Hussein's Iraq to a new life in Australia and a remarkable career at the forefront of medicine. 325 pages. Illustrated with colour photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781760110727. Inventory No: 267347.. 9781760110727
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- Bookseller
- leura books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 267347
- Title
- Walking Free
- Author
- Munjed Al Muderis with Patrick Weaver
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1760110728
- ISBN 13
- 9781760110727
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Unbranded EAN: 9781760110727 Munjed Al Muderis with Patrick Weaver Walking Free
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography / Memoir;
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