From Eskimo Point to Alice Springs

Adventures in Nursing from the Arctic to the Outback

Anne Watts

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• eBook ISBN:
  9781471112829
• Year: 2012

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}} \viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang2057\f0\fs20 In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse, eager to use her skills. Her father expected her to work locally, not too far from North Wales, where Anne had grown up, and to then settle down and have children. However, Anne had inherited her father's adventurous spirit and at the first opportunity she set sail for Canada to work in the remote stations in the frozen north of the country. She found a placement easily, among the indigenous Inuit people. With the whole world to explore, Anne later headed for Alice Springs in the Australian outback. She speaks eloquently about what it was like to be a nurse and midwife among a tough cattle-ranching community who lived in close proximity with Australia's Aboriginal people. Anne's eyes were opened to their skills at surviving the harshest of environments, but also to the prejudices they suffered. Forty years later, Anne returned to both countries to see how life has changed in Eskimo Point and Alice Springs, and what has become of its people and landscape. \par }

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise for Always the Children
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Contents
• Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
• PART ONE: HOME AND AWAY
• 1 Working Girl
• 2 Early Life
• 3 Bella Italia
• 4 A Hero Laid to Rest
• 5 Bon Voyage
• 6 Brave New World
• 7 Joie de Vivre
• 8 Lessons in Life and Death
• 9 Cassiar
• 10 The Real Thing
• 11 All That Glisters . . .
• 12 The Voyage Home
• 13 Fashionable London
• 14 The Hippie Trail
• PART TWO: DOWN UNDER
• 15 Welcome to Oz
• 16 A Town Like Alice
• 17 Emergency Room
• 18 Love and Stuff
• 19 Dreamtime Nightmares
• 20 Pride and Prejudice
• PART THREE: CHANGING GEAR
• 21 Sea Views
• 22 Eskimo Point
• 23 Caribou Nights
• PART FOUR: THE YEARS BETWEEN
• 24 Family Matters
• 25 Comings and Goings
• 26 Return to the Yukon
• 27 Ghost Town
• 28 Arctic Circles
• 29 Outside Looking In
• List of Plates