Snowshoes and Stethoscopes: Tales of Medicine and Flying in the Canadian Far North

by John Dale

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0968226000
• ISBN13: 9780968226001
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Daedalus Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great tale of medicine under extreme circumstances

I found this book in a bookstore in Hay River, NWT on a trip to the NWT. I was entranced with the story. The circumstances Dr. Dale worked under were extraordinary compared to the luxury of what we have further south. After reading his book, I have become interested in working in the NWT myself.

One of the finest Arctic-themed memoirs in years.

Crisply written, with just enough self-effacing humour and personal narrative mixed with the action, to draw readers into comfortable familiarity, "Snowshoes and Stethoscopes" is a wonderfully insightful chronicel of the author's adventures as one of the last true "Flying Doctors" in the frozen frontiers of the Northwest territories. The reader is drawn into a personal unfolding of this immigrant doctor/pilot's fears and excitement as he tackles isolation which most doctors and pilot's would shy away from. "Snowshoes and Stethoscopes" was a book that has kept many readers entranced fron start to finish and the only crtiticism has been a desire for more stories of this frozen north. The pictures are beautiful and haunting and very real, all well described and fitting into the narrative. The book is a lovely production and the cover design has been entered in a competition by the printer. Good value. Diana Haschke (Nelson)