Title: Adventures in Mashonaland: By Two Hospital Nurses (Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1108032508
ISBN 13: 9781108032506
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Written by Rosanna ('Rose') Blennerhassett (c.1844–1907), the daughter of baronet Sir Arthur Blennerhassett, this work of 1893 recounts the adventures of two Anglican nurses who worked in Umtali (now Mutare in northern Zimbabwe). In 1890 Blennerhassett sailed to Johannesburg to nurse victims of a typhoid outbreak, meeting Lucy Sleeman on board. At the end of their period of service, the pair opted to go north into Mashonaland rather than returning to England. They undertook a two-week journey of 190 miles on foot in the bush from the Pungwe river to Umtali, where they established the first hospital, in a series of beehive-shaped mud huts. The pair remained there for two years, often working without a doctor. The book recounts every aspect of their daily adventures, from baking cakes and constructing coffins out of whisky cases to bizarre encounters with witch hunters, a man-eating lion, and Cecil Rhodes.

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First published in 1893, this memoir recounts the experiences of two English nurses who volunteered to establish a bush hospital in Umtali (now in northern Zimbabwe). Blennerhassett and Sleeman walked through the bush for two weeks to reach their destination, remaining for two years and often working without a doctor.

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