The Mind of Norman Bethune

Stewart, Roderick

ISBN 10: 0889024189 / ISBN 13: 9780889024182

Published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto, 1977

About this Item

Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, ix + 150 pages including a full page map of China and many black-and-white illustrations throughout; elegant book in red covers with very bright and clear gilt lettering to spine, tight in binding, only tiny traces of wear along edges and corners, all pages very clean and unmarked, fresh and white; DJ bumped and rubbed, several very tiny chips.

Seller Inventory # 044551

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mind of Norman Bethune
• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Toronto
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889024189
• ISBN 13: 9780889024182
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good ++
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • History
  • Canadiana

About this title

Synopsis

The mind of Norman Bethune contains the most important and revealing writings of Norman Bethune. Illustrated with over 100 contemporary photographs The Mind of Norman Bethune uncovers one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the 20th century.

Bethune's distinctive place in modern history is now fully acknowledged. As a Montreal surgeon in the Great Depression, Bethune was drawn to left-wing politics. Determined to act on his beliefs, he went to Spain at the outbreak of its Civil War, and set up the first ever mobile blood transfusion service for the Loyalist forces which operated in the thick of the fighting. In 1937, Dr. Bethune journeyed to China and aided Mao Zedong's forces who were then under attack by the Japanese.

Bethune was a complex, volatile man. His interests were many and diverse: medical, political, literary and artistic. In this unique and engaging collection, the development of a most passionate and paradoxical man is finally revealed.

About the Author

Roderick Stewart.