- Paperback: 270 pages
- Publisher: Eye Books; Second Edition, Second edition edition (Dec 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1903070732
- ISBN-13: 978-1903070734
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 16.9 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 299 g
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#989,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #31 in Books > Travel > Africa > Coastal West Africa
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"Illustrates the tenacity and determination of the people of Sierra Leone." —Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
"Very down to earth, very funny, very human." —Yorkshire Evening Post
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When your Dad can crash his airplane into two water buffalo, life is unlikely to go according to plan. Even so, Emily Joy puts on her rose-tinted glasses, leaves behind her comfortable life as a doctor in Britain, and heads off for two years to a remote hospital in Sierra Leone. There she finds the oranges are green, the bananas are black, and her patients are very ill. There's no water, no electricity, no oxygen, no amputation saw—and Dr. Em is no surgeon. And there's no chocolate to treat her nasty case of unrequited love. Dr. Em's problems are tiny compared to those faced by the people of Sierra Leone on a daily basis. If they can remain so optimistic, what's Em's excuse? Our green doctor is a bit of a yellow-belly, often red-faced, trying to fight the blues. But green oranges give sweet orange juice. Never judge a fruit by its color.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A clear picture of an incredible world, July 6 2009
By P. L. Ross "trplr" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Green Oranges on Lion Mountain (Paperback)
I'm a volunteer in Sierra Leone, teaching Traditional Birth Attendants. I work about 100 miles from the author's locale, but we work with the same tribe, the Mende. I'm working in the aftermath of the civil war that closes this book.This book, written by a doctor from the UK, describes with great humor and some pathos the difficulty of living and working in "Salone". The book would benefit from some copy-editing - thus only 4 stars; however, the directness of the author's voice and the clarity of the world she describes is worth any amount of typos. She describes the people and the setting so well that I surely recognize my colleagues as cousins to her colleagues.
If you are interested in Sierra Leone, international aid initiatives, volunteerism, or the practice of medicine in impossible situations, you would do well to read Green Oranges. And yes, the oranges are green and so very sweet. --Trish Ross
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great read!, Dec 26 2011
By Amy L. May - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a wonderful story, well written!It is real and inspirational. A real glimpse of Sierra Leone and it's people.
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