| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - London :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - J. M. Dent & Sons,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - [1952]
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "Born of those Years is the author's autobiography, and to such a degree has his work become synonymous with his life that his book might be described, with equal accuracy, as a study of leprosy as a worldwide problem. Mr. Burgess is president of the American Leprosy Foundation, and his adventures have been mainly met in the lifelong battle against the disease. During the Second World War he was consultant to the American Secretary of War on epidemic diseases, with special responsibility for leprosy. In his official capacities he has visited every part of the world where disease is endemic and is an intimate friend of the world's best-known workers in the field. In the course of his travels he has crossed the Pacific nearly a score of times and has investigated conditions in the Philippines, Hawaii (Fr. Damien's colony at Molokao), Japan, China, French Indo-China, Malay, Dutch East Indies, Korea, India, Egypt, Palestine, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, Argentine, and Paraguay (during the revolution). 'My work,' he says, 'has taken me over the seven seas, and across the Alps, the Andes, the Himalayas.'
Because Perry Burgess has come to be regarded as the foremost authority on this hideous problem in all its aspects, his autobiography has unique interest, but it is also full of all kinds of most interesting information about the many countries he visited and their peoples, their habits, customs, folklore, and superstitions, as well as accounts of amusing, exciting, and moving experiences in every corner of the globe, in war and peace."
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