Barefoot Bushdoctor. A doctor in the Kalahari

Barefoot Bushdoctor: A doctor in the Kalahari is a sparkling yet delicate narrative of a period of great change in Namibia and South Africa.
de Kok, Hélène
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Title: Barefoot Bushdoctor
Subtitle: A doctor in the Kalahari
Author: Hélène De Kok
Selfpublished
Gobabis, Farm Hekel, Namibia 2017
ISBN 9789994585779 / ISBN 978-99945-85-77-9
Softcover, 15 x 21 cam, 211 pages, numerous b/w photographs

About: Barefoot Bushdoctor. A doctor in the Kalahari

Gobabis, a town in the east of Namibia, is home of a respectable number of authors and artists. Hélène de Kok being one, she recently released her memoirs titled Barefoot Bushdoctor: A doctor in the Kalahari. She recalls the hardships she faced as a medical and woman in this remote part of the Kalahari Desert, as well as many humorous and tragic events she was part of on her farm during a time span of four decades. Born in the Free State, South African Hélène De Kok introduces to her ancestors who came from Holland to South Africa and to later generations who where part of the Great Treck. Barefoot Bushdoctor: A doctor in the Kalahari is a sparkling yet delicate narrative of a period of great change in Namibia and South Africa.

Content: Barefoot Bushdoctor. A doctor in the Kalahari

FOREWORD
Liebenberg Trek
A Van der Post in Africa
The Anglo-Boer War - Lammie and the bullets
Sir James Steuart and Comte le Cocq
After the Great War (1914 - 1918)
Growing up in Africa
A School to enjoy
Moving on ...
Intermezzo - the smoke that thunders
Studying medicine
The doctor
FRAGMENTS FROM A BUSH PRACTICE
The beginning
Platjie - drilling machine
Alone at home
Farming
The Bulliks
Under the thorn tree
I am a child
Footprints
Clinics
Everyday - letters, certificate of life
Andante
Jack of all trades
Lena's child
The San clinic
Fortissimo
Africa - a feather in the wind
Appendices - Map, Retiefs, Marchands, Family trees
A House on fire - Helena Marchand 1907
Family crest, blazon
Family Bible - Children of Karolus and Agatha de Kok
Glossary
Acknowledgements & Bibliography
ENDNOTES