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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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Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Labrador in 1892 as the agent of the National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. His immediate task was to provide a system of medical care for migratory fishermen living apart from their Newfoundland communities. But in the course of his life, Grenfell proceeded to build a complex medical and philanthropic organization that still bears his name a century later. By 1908, he had already laid the foundation for a missionary domain with its headquarters in St. Anthony and was expanding his influence through home industries and other social reforms designed to transform the region economically.
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- PublisherFlanker Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1771175842
- ISBN 13 9781771175845
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages59
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