Scanty Particulars: The Life Of Dr James Parry by Rachel Holmes

Scanty Particulars: The Life Of Dr James Parry

Rachel Holmes

338 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ adventurous reflective slow-paced
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James Miranda Barry, (1795-1865) was one of the great, forgotten pioneers of medicine and surgery in the 19th-century British empire. Posted to a series of far-flung corners of colonialism--from the Cape Colony to St Helena, the Caribbean to Canad...

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