Wilfred Grenfell, the doctor and master mariner who founded the Labrador medical mission, describes the hard lives of the fishermen, settlers and Inuit of that coast in the 1890s. He writes of schooners, cod fishing, poverty and the truck system, hospital work, and night navigation among rocks and fog in a small mission boat.
A stirring first-hand account by one of the great medical missionaries, introduced by Sir Frederick Treves. Download the free EPUB.