Author: Boase, Alice; Knowlden, Margaret (editor).
Title: We Reach the Promised Land (a British Couple's Association with the World-Famous St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital 1954 - 1969).
Description: Sydney, St Ives Chase M. & E. Publishing, 2003. Paperback wide trade, very good plus condition, black & white text-photos, minimal edgewear. 136 pp. The autobiography of Alice Boase, and the time she and husband Arthur spent in Jerusalem. He was Warden of the Ophthalmic Hospital of the Order of St John in Jerusalem. Alice was an inveterate writer, and found a rich field of subject matter in her new home. Jerusalem, its people and its environs, take on characters of their own. Margaret Knowlden has edited the notes manuscript by her mother Alice Boase. She felt the experiences of her parents as ex-patriates during a very interesting period in this troubled part of the world were worth preserving in this special book. ISBN: 0975094882

Keywords: australan biography, autobiography, travel, health, medicine, eye hospitals, middle east, israel, jerusalem, britain 0975094882


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