{"product_id":"nurse-in-the-north-by-barbara-ancott-johnson-5054v","title":"Nurse in the North by Barbara Ancott-Johnson","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis highly readable book describes some of the experiences, amusing and otherwise, of a district nurse in a remote and quite unique corner of New Zealand. The time was about thirty years ago -- the 1940s -- and the district concerned lay just south of the Hokianga Harbour, Northland, with the Waiopoua Forest cutting it off from places further south. This was within the area presided over by Dr George McCall Smith, the redoubtable, unconventional backblocks doctor\", writer and medical pioneer, then nearing the end of his long period of devoted service to the Hokianga. The roads were rough and gravelly, there was no electricity and the population of the district was five-sixths Maori -- lovable people but still just getting accustomed to Pakeha ways. From these ingredients Barbara Ancott-Johnson has prepared a real \"Hokianga\" for the reader -- the chunky meat sandwiches beloved of Dr Smith became known as \"Hokiangas\". The meat in this sandwich is undoubtedly Dr Smith himself, or \"Jock\" as his nurses called him. Her account is invaluable alone as a first hand study of this remarkable man. But the fresh bread and butter of this book is her own story of district nursing under primitive conditions -- her dealings with situations, crises and people, with the Maori people, old and young, taking pride of place ...\"--Inside front cover.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41855296569418,"sku":"5054v","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5054v.jpg?v=1765226818","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/nurse-in-the-north-by-barbara-ancott-johnson-5054v","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}