Outback Midwife
From the City to the Bush - One Woman's Labours of Love
$69.32
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2015
Summary
Call the Midwife meets In the Middle of Nowhere in this heartwarming memoir of an adventurous Aussie midwife’s life ‘catching babies’. Outback Midwife is the story of Beth McRae’s 40 years as a midwife, from her terrifying first day witnessing a birth as a na ve student nurse to her training as a midwife the days when the words birth plan’ were unheard of and what women wanted was a long way from being part of any plan - to the outback. Beth’s career of catching babies takes her from the city…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857983947 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857983946 |
| Author: | Beth McRae |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia) |
| Imprint: | Bantam |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 153mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Beth McRae
Beth McRae began her training as a midwife at Preston and Northcote Community Hospital in Victoria, in the days when the birth plans were unheard of, and went on catch babies’ all over Australia. After more than 30 years on the job, in her 50s there was one more frontier she was determined to conquer, the outback, where she believed her experience was needed more than anywhere else. So Beth upped sticks to a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land and embarked on a whole new adventure.
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