Glemser, Bernard: The Long Safari: A British Surgeon in Africa tracks down and successfully combats a dangerous form of cancer

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Glemser, Bernard : The Long Safari: A British Surgeon in Africa tracks down and successfully combats a dangerous form of cancer

London: Bodley Head, 1971

Hardback, first UK edition (published in US as Mr Burkitt and Africa), very good condition, in a good++ unclipped (£2.10) dust-jacket slightly worn and torn at edges, publisher's original red clothboards with gilt blocking to spine, 236 pages, --------------- the remarkable story of Denis Burkit, a British surgeon in Africa who tracks down and successfully combats a dangerous form of cancer. He and two missionary friends set off in an old Ford stationwagon on an 10,000 mile safari to visit hospitals between Kampala and Johannesburg. They returned with information that startled the medical world. Burkitt's Lymphoma appeared to be the first form of cancer to be 'cracked'.

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Glemser, Bernard : The Long Safari: A British Surgeon in Africa tracks down and successfully combats a dangerous form of cancer

London: Bodley Head, 1971

Hardback, first UK edition (published in US as Mr Burkitt and Africa), very good condition, in a good++ unclipped (£2.10) dust-jacket slightly shelf worn and 0.5" tear at top of spine, publisher's original red clothboards with gilt blocking to spine, 236 pages, --------------- the remarkable story of Denis Burkit, a British surgeon in Africa who tracks down and successfully combats a dangerous form of cancer. He and two missionary friends set off in an old Ford stationwagon on an 10,000 mile safari to visit hospitals between Kampala and Johannesburg. They returned with information that startled the medical world. Burkitt's Lymphoma appeared to be the first form of cancer to be 'cracked'.

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