An American Doctor’s Odyssey (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Victor Heiser
- First Published: 1936
- Time of Work: 1889–1935
- Setting: The Philippines, Micronesia, China, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Victor Heiser, W. Cameron Forbes, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Autobiography, Doctors, Developing countries, Medicine, Health, Diseases, Philippines or Filipinos, Tropics
- Locales: United States, China, Japan, Australia, India, New Zealand, Philippines, Micronesia, Samoa
Form and Content
In thirty chapters of autobiography, taken from letters, notes, diaries, and other memoranda, Dr. Victor George Heiser takes his readers on a forty-six-year journey through sixty countries (he worked in forty-five of them). An American Doctor’s Odyssey: Adventures in Forty-five Countries is arranged chronologically, with occasional flashbacks and asides. The narrative contains a frontispiece photograph of Heiser and a small black-and-white sketch at the beginning of each chapter. The book culminates in a six-page index of hundreds of names and...
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