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A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell By: Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940) |
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The Autobiography of
Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
M.D. (Oxon.), C.M.G. With Illustrations [Illustration]
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge Copyright, 1919, by Wilfred T. Grenfell
All Rights Reserved
PREFACE
I have long been resisting the strong pressure from friends that would
force me to risk having to live alongside my own autobiography. It
seems still an open question whether it is advisable, or even whether
it is right seeing that it calls for confessions. In the eyes of God
the only alternative is a book of lies. Moreover, sitting down to
write one's own life story has always loomed up before my imagination
as an admission that one was passing the post which marks the last
lap; and though it was a justly celebrated physician who told us that
we might profitably crawl upon the shelf at half a century, that added
no attraction for me to the effort, when I passed that goal. Thirty two years spent in work for deep sea fishermen, twenty seven of
which years have been passed in Labrador and northern Newfoundland,
have necessarily given me some experiences which may be helpful to
others. I feel that this alone justifies the writing of this story. To the many helpers who have coöperated with me at one time or another
throughout these years, I owe a debt of gratitude which will never be
forgotten, though it has been impossible to mention each one by name.
Without them this work could never have been. To my wife, who was willing to leave all the best the civilized world
can offer to share my life on this lonely coast, I want to dedicate
this book. Truth forces me to own that it would never have come into
being without her, and her greater share in the work of its production
declares her courage to face the consequences.
CONTENTS
I. EARLY DAYS 1 II. SCHOOL LIFE 15 III. EARLY WORK IN LONDON 37 IV. AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL 64 V. NORTH SEA WORK 99 VI. THE LURE OF THE LABRADOR 119 VII. THE PEOPLE OF LABRADOR 139 VIII. LECTURING AND CRUISING 159 IX. THE SEAL FISHERY 171 X. THREE YEARS' WORK IN THE BRITISH ISLES 183 XI. FIRST WINTER AT ST. ANTHONY 197 XII. THE COÖPERATIVE MOVEMENT 215 XIII. THE MILL AND THE FOX FARM 226 XIV. THE CHILDREN'S HOME 241 XV. PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION 254 XVI. "WHO HATH DESIRED THE SEA?" 270 XVII. THE REINDEER EXPERIMENT 288 XVIII. THE ICE PAN ADVENTURE 304 XIX. THEY THAT DO BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS 315 XX. MARRIAGE 331 XXI. NEW VENTURES 344 XXII. PROBLEMS ON LAND AND SEA 357 XXIII. A MONTH'S HOLIDAY IN ASIA MINOR 376 XXIV. THE WAR 384 XXV. FORWARD STEPS 403 XXVI. THE FUTURE OF THE MISSION 411 XXVII. MY RELIGIOUS LIFE 424 INDEX 435
ILLUSTRATIONS
WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL Frontispiece VIEW FROM MOSTYN HOUSE, THE AUTHOR'S BIRTHPLACE, PARKGATE,
CHESHIRE 2 OXFORD UNIVERSITY RUGBY UNION FOOTBALL TEAM 44 THE LABRADOR COAST 120 ESKIMO WOMAN AND BABY 128 ESKIMO MAN 128 ESKIMO GIRLS 132 BATTLE HARBOUR 140 A LABRADOR BURIAL 156 THE LABRADOR DOCTOR IN SUMMER 164 THE STRATHCONA 192 THREE OF THE DOCTOR'S DOGS 198 A KOMATIK JOURNEY 202 THE FIRST COÖPERATIVE STORE 218 ST... Continue reading book >>
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