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  • The Boy Who Never Gave Up

    A Refugee's Epic Journey to Triumph

    by Emmanuel Taban ...
    In 1994, 16-year-old Emmanuel Taban walked out of war-torn Sudan with nothing and nowhere to go after he had been tortured at the hands of government forces, who falsely accused him of spying for the rebels. When he finally managed to escape, he literally took a wrong turn and, instead of being reunited with his family, ended up in neighbouring Eritrea as a refugee. Over the months that followed, ... Read more

    $11.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Boy Who Wouldn't Die

    by David Nyuol Vincent, Carol Nader ...
    The inspiring true story of David Nyuol Vincent, a Sudanese refugee who survived famine, wars and 17 years in refugee camps to build a new life in Australia.David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village and his childhood.For months David and his father walked across ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After the Tampa

    by Abbas Nazari ...
    The heart-rending story of a child 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere.When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere.The family's desperate search for ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Around Africa On My Bicycle

    by Riaan Manser ...
    In a world first, almost incredibly, Riaan Manser rode a bicycle right around the continent of Africa. It took him two years, two months and fifteen days. He rode 36 500 kilometres through 34 different countries. In Around Africa on my Bicycle, Manser tells the story of this epic journey. It is a story of blood, sweat, toil and tears. It is a story of triumph and occassional disaster. Of nights ... Read more

    $8.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Wars

    An uplifting, life-enhancing autobiography, a poignant story of the power of resilience

    by Dr Waheed Arian ...
    AS HEARD ON DESERT ISLAND DISCSAS SEEN ON THE CHANGEMAKERS, a Paramount+ docuseries profiling activists fighting for change**A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'A riveting story of loss, exile, and rebirth.' KHALED HOSSEINI, author of The Kite Runner**'One of the most incredible life stories you will ever hear.' JAMES O'BRIEN'A remarkable story. I thought this book was brilliant.' NAGA MUNCHETTY.. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Behind the Veil

    An Australian Nurse in Saudi Arabia

    by Lydia Laube ...
    "Cardiac resuscitation was often applied to a patient who was fast asleep. The hapless victim woke from a peaceful slumber to find somebody, often an infidel, jumping up and down on his chest." Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia in a society that does not allow women to drive, vote, or speak to a man alone. Wearing head-to-toe coverings in stifling heat, and battling administrative ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • No Dancing, No Dancing

    Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis

    by Denis Dragovic ...
    What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left?No Dancing, No Dancing follows the return journey of a former aid worker back to the site of three major humanitarian crises—South Sudan, Iraq and East Timor—in search of what happened to the people and projects. Along the way, he looks for answers to how we can better respond to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Doctor in Africa

    by Dr Andrew Browning ...
    Including a preface by HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne.The Australian doctor saving the lives and dignity of thousands of women in Africa, one surgery at a time.From Ethiopia to Sierra Leone, Tanzania to Togo, Dr Andrew Browning has been helping women affected by obstetric fistulas - a debilitating condition resulting from obstructed childbirth - for nearly two decades. Andrew began his ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Nurse on the Edge of the Desert

    From Birdsville to Kandahar: The art of extreme nursing

    by Andrew Cameron ...
    Series series A Nurse on the Edge of the Desert
    International humanitarian-aid nurse and New Zealander Andrew Cameron is the winner of the coveted Florence Nightingale Medal. In this gripping book he recounts his remarkable life nursing in some of the world's most dangerous and challenging locations, including South Sudan, Yemen, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. He also details his nursing career in some of Australia's most remote settlements, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living In The Real Cyprus

    by Vic Heaney ...
    Cyprus ticks all the boxes. Sun. Sea. Cheap food and drink. Friendly, smiling people. How would you like to live there? Is this island heaven too good to be true? Surely there can be no darker side? Is there no lingering resentment from the colonial period and the bitter and vicious guerrilla war which ended it? What happens when Vic and his wife Gay come into contact with the real Cyprus, away ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hospital by the River

    A story of hope

    by Catherine Hamlin, John Little ...
    When gynecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin left their home in Australia for Ethiopia, they never dreamed that they would establish what has been heralded as one of the most incredible medical programs in the modern world.But more than forty years later, the couple has operated on more than 20,000 women, most of whom suffered from obstetric fistula, a debilitating childbirth injury.In this awe ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Dark Continent my Black Arse

    by Shile Khumalo ...
    In 2003 Sihle Khumalo decided to give up a lucrative job and a comfortable life style in Durban and to celebrate his 30th birthday by crossing the continent from south to north. Celebrating life with gusto and in inimitable style, he describes a journey fraught with discomfort, mishap, ecstasy, disillusionment, discovery and astonishing human encounters. A journey that would be acceptable madness ... Read more

    $9.09 USD