Providence was with us : how a Japanese doctor turned the Afghan desert green / Nakamura Tetsu ; translated by Carl Freire.

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Nakamura, Tetsu, 1946-2019 [Browse]
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English
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First English edition
Published/​Created
  • Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2020.
  • ©2020
Description
xiv, 223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.

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    Starting in 1984 and continuing until his untimely passing in 2019, Dr. Nakamura Tetsu carried out relief work in Pakistan and Afghanistan both as a physician and a humanitarian trying to improve living conditions for the people he met. This memoir recounts the travails and triumphs of Nakamura's three and a half decades in those two countries--Adapted from dust jacket
    Notes
    • Translation of: Ten tomo ni ari : Afuganisutan sanjūnen no tatakai : NHK Shuppan, 2013
    • Includes index.
    Language note
    In English translated from Japanese.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Afghanistan, 2009
    • Memories of Encounters, 1946-1985. Heaven is with us ; The road to Peshawar
    • Seeking the Water of Life, 1986-2001. Opening clinics amid a Civil War ; Persevering through drought and air strikes
    • Creating Green Ground, 2002-2008. Seeking to revive farm villages ; Construction of the irrigation canal ; Relocating our base hospital and evacuating Japanese staff ; Setting our sights on the Gamberi Desert
    • The Miracle Reaches the Desert : 2009 and Beyond. The blessings of the earth : opening the canal ; The lessons of the great flood of 2010.
    Other title(s)
    How a Japanese doctor turned the Afghan desert green
    ISBN
    • 9784866581477 ((hardback))
    • 4866581476 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2020436483
    OCLC
    1245174704
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