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Providence was with us : how a Japanese doctor turned the Afghan desert green
Ten tomo ni ari. English
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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 l...
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.
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- Creator
- Nakamura Tetsu ; translated by Carl Freire
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- English
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- First English edition
- Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2020
- ©2020
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- xiv, 223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9784866581477, 4866581476
- OCLC
- on1245174704
- Translation of: Ten tomo ni ari : Afuganisutan sanjūnen no tatakai : NHK Shuppan, 2013.
- Includes index.
- Translated from Japanese.
- 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