Providence was with us : how a Japanese doctor turned the Afghan desert green / Nakamura Tetsu ; translated by Carl Freire
Nakamura, Tetsu, 1946-2019, author.; Freire, Carl, translator.
2020
RA771.7.A3 N3513 2020 (Mapit)
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Title
Providence was with us : how a Japanese doctor turned the Afghan desert green / Nakamura Tetsu ; translated by Carl Freire
Author
Nakamura, Tetsu, 1946-2019, author.
Uniform Title
Ten tomo ni ari. English
Edition
First English edition
ISBN
9784866581477 (hardback)
4866581476 (hardback)
Published
Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2020
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from Japanese
Description
xiv, 223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm
Call Number
RA771.7.A3 N3513 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
610.695 N16p
Summary
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
Note
Translation of: Ten tomo ni ari : Afuganisutan sanjūnen no tatakai : NHK Shuppan, 2013
Includes index
Added Author
Freire, Carl, translator.
Series
Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
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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

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