My Arabian Days and Nights.

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (20 x 13.5 cm). pp.viii+[1]+182. Publishers' original turquoise cloth, spine lettered in white, in the unclipped dust-jacket. From the library of Anthony V. Knapp Jr. with his stamp to front pastedown. Some light general wear and fading to jacket, generally a very good copy. "This is the true story of the first woman medical missionary to the Arabian people. It is a story full of adventure, courage, sincerity and service to others. It spells out the power of love and humility and the unfailing truth that 'bread cast upon the waters, returns a hundredfold'. In 1909 Dr. Eleanor Calverley went as a bride with her husband, a minister and teacher, to the province of Kuwait on the Persian Gulf. She opened a one-room dispensary and hoped to bring comfort and medical care to the Muslim women, bettering their way of life; he taught in the boys' school opening vistas and a sense of responsibility to eager young minds. Today, over forty years later there is fruition of their labor and love in the "New" Kuwait. On the site of her one- room dispensary stands the modern Olcott Memorial Hospital; schools are established and educational facilities have in- creased a tribute to the "first woman doctor and first teacher of modern education to Kuwait". Many of the Arabian young people whose lives came under the influence of these devoted American missionaries have caught their spirit of service and altruism. DR. ELEANOR T. CALVERLEY received her medical degree from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1908. The following year she was married to the Reverend Edwin Calverley and together they sailed for Arabia. After two years of language study, they were assigned to the Arabian Mission in Ku- wait, which later became associated with the Reformed Church of America. Starting with a one-room dispensary, Dr. Calverley founded and built up the American Hospital for Women, today functioning as the Olcott Memorial Hospital. In addition to practicing medicine and surgery in Kuwait, Dr. Calverley raised three daughters, the first Western youngsters the Arabs of that place had seen. After twenty years of service the Calverleys returned to America, where she is a practicing physician and lecturer on tropical hygiene and her husband trains young people for service in Muslim countries at the Kennedy School of Missions of the Hartford Seminary Foundation. In 1955 the Calverleys returned to Kuwait for an extended tour, and the in- formation gathered is included in this book" (dust-jacket). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 62081

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