Marjorie's Journey: On A Mission of Her Own

Marjorie's Journey: On a Mission of Her Own tells the compelling story of Marjorie, a courageous woman who sailed to South Africa with ten children during WWII.

About the author

Ailie Cleghorn is professor emerita from Concordia University in Montreal. As a comparative sociologist of education her research took her to several African still-developing primary and pre-primary school settings. As a result, this neatly ties in with Marjorie’s story, who herself trained as a Montessori teacher. Ailie was born and raised in Canada, however, her mother was from Scotland. Marjorie’s Journey: On A Mission Of Her Own is her first book published with Scotland Street Press.

Summary

Marjorie’s Journey: On a Mission of Her Own tells the compelling story of Marjorie, a courageous woman who sailed to South Africa with ten children during WWII.

Product details

• Authors: Ailie Cleghorn
• Publisher: BookSource
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781910895474
• ISBN: 978-1-910895-47-4
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 229 g
• Illustrations: Photographs make up all the illustrations in this book
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Canada, Diaries, letters & journals, Biography: historical, political & military, True war & combat stories, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Africa, Scotland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Women's health, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Gender studies: women, School/community relations & school/home relations, Diaries, letters and journals, Gender studies: women and girls, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), True war and combat stories, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Biography: historical, political and military, South Africa: places of interest, Schools and pre-schools, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs