Conversations with My Father: Jack Kyle
- ISBN-10
- 1444797344
- ISBN-13
- 9781444797343
- Series
- Conversations with My Father
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-18
- Publisher
- Hachette Ireland
- Author
- Justine Kyle McGrath
Description
Jack Kyle was the rugby giant of his time, but he was also so much more than a sporting legend. Whilst he was winning a Grand Slam and touring with the Lions, Jack Kyle was also studying to be a doctor. When he retired from playing rugby - as the world's most-capped player - his sense of adventure and medical ambition led him to settle in Chingola, Zambia, where he spent the next thirty-four years of his life. For many years, he was the only medically trained surgeon in the town and so faced many challenges, not least the appearance of and devastation caused by AIDS. Written as a series of conversations with his daughter, Justine, Conversations with My Father reveals Jack Kyle as a supremely gifted rugby player, a dedicated surgeon and a gentle family man.
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Other editions
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- 2007
- 86 pages
- Paperback
- Sterling Publishing Company
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