Vartan of Nazareth : missionary and medical pioneer in the nineteenth-century Middle East
Malcolm Billings (Author)
"Traces the remarkable life of Pacradooni Kaloost Vartan, the son of a poor Armenian tailor in Constantinople. Born in 1835 at a time of great change in the Ottoman Empire, the young Vartan attended the first American missionary school in the imperial city. He joined the British Army as an interpreter in the Crimea and, having witnessed the rigours of battlefield medicine, was drawn to a career as a surgeon and physician. ... The book tells of Vartan's devotion and determination and follows the development of the hospital he founded through the turbulent times of the First World War, the British Mandate and the birth of modern Israel."--Dust jacket flap
Print Book, English, 2012
Paul Holberton publishing, London, 2012