Adventure-seeker Emma broke her ankle when she fell awkwardly while climbing a rock and spent a week in hospital waiting for an operation on her foot. When she was sent home to recover under strict instructions not to bear any weight she became so fearful of crutches ( 拐杖 ) that she di...
John Samuel, Mission Hospital, Taxila, India. FIVE... Snatched. From Man-eating Tigers "Tragedy of tragedies," bewailed the Indian midwife as she snatched a little child from its wrappings, "it is a girl." Born into the home of a high caste Indian who had been waiting for a boy ...
Spain to see the bullfights. He wroteThe Old Man and the Seaafter meeting Gregorio Fuentes,the Cuban fisherman the book is based on. He hunted big game in East Africa, visited communist rebels in the Spanish civil war, and was nursed back to health in a WWI hospital. Hemingway didn't ...