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A Wilder Life

Journey of An Adventuring Doctor

Joan Louwrens

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English
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
20 October 2020
DR JOAN LOUWRENS has always been drawn to wild places, which are balm to her soul. When her husband died, leaving her alone with two small daughters to raise, she threw herself wholeheartedly into 'adventure medicine', seeking out the world's most remote corners - on land and at sea - to practise healing, both her own and others'.

Working in wild places from the Kruger Park to the Australian Outback, the Atlantic Ocean islands, and both the Arctic and Antarctic, 'Doctor Joan' has dealt with a vast range of medical challenges, from rabies to deep-vein thrombosis, childbirth to wisdom-tooth extraction, catatonia to depression.

Showing an eagerness to learn and a humility that aren't always a given in her profession, and with a wry eye and a sympathetic outlook, Joan Louwrens has written a memoir that's a poignant and often funny story of a life lived to the full.

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Imprint:   Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Dimensions:   Height: 233mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   500g
ISBN:   9781776190607
ISBN 10:   1776190602
Pages:   304
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Joan Louwrens is a medical doctor with additional qualifications in General Medicine, Anaesthetics, and Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She has had the privilege of working on all seven continents and a few oceans between them, sometimes in a standard hospital setting, but more frequently as a bicycle expedition or ship’s doctor. Africa, however, always pulls her back. She has two daughters who have inherited her wandering gene. When she isn’t travelling, she lives in Knysna.

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