Buy this book on-line MARSDEN, Kate : On Sledge & Horseback To Outcast Siberian Lepers. Illustrated from Photographs and DrawingsRecord Press, London. n.d.
Third edition. Turquoise boards, gilt vignette to upper board. Upper hinge tender. Portrait frontis with tissue guard. Ownership signature and date 1893. Facsimile letters tipped in. Illustrations. Some staining to outer edges of boards. Spine slightly age browned. Internally a very clean copy of this scarce book. Kate Marsden (1859-1931), nurse, during the war between Russia and Turkey in 1878. Learning of conditions under which Russian lepers were forced to live, she sought out assistance of Queen Victoria, and the Empress of Russia and in 1891 rode thousands of miles across the wilds of Siberia to bring medical relief to Russia's forgotten wounded, as well as finding a herb which was allegedly a cure for leprosy. One of the first women to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and founder of St. Francis Leprosy Guild in London. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of MARSDEN, Kate : On Sledge & Horseback To Outcast Siberian Lepers. Illustrated from Photographs and Drawings. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, libri rari, livres illustrées, rare books and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |