GAROD BOOKS
Alice Shepard Riggs,
Shepard of Aintab, with a new introduction by Constance Shepard Jolly
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Description
London, 6 August 2001--Originally published in 1920, Alice Shepard Riggs's Shepard of Aintab relates the story of Fred Shepard, who spent over thiry years as a medical missionary amongst Armenians, Turks, Kurds, and Arabs in Aintab prior to 1915. The book was originally written as a Sunday school text to inspire youngsters to Christian service but has proven of much interest elsewhere. It provides an anecdotal account of a wonderful man, who left the United States to help people in Ottoman Turkey.
"I do not believe that Alice Riggs embroidered the events of her father's life. By many accounts, he really does seem to have been the skilled physician, the superb horseman, the tireless worker, the devout Christian, and the lovable human being she describes," says granddaughter Constance Shepard-Jolly in a new introduction to the volume. Many Aintabtsies--Armenian and non- Armenian--still remember Dr. Shepard fondly and will be thrilled by this new publication.
Table Of Contents
Map (viii)
New Foreword by Constance Shepard Jolly (ix)
Preface (1)
Prelude (3)
1. Boyhood and Youth (7)
2. The Spring of Healing (19)
3. Miracles of the Surgeon’s Knife (33)
4. The Hospital (45)
5. Horses and Bandits (55)
6. Facing the Mob (71)
7. Summer Outings and Hunting Trips (85)
8. A Friend to All (99)
9. All Things to All Men (109)
10. Tragedies of the War (119)
Postlude (129)