This book honours the women who served as nursing sisters in the Australian outback during the twentieth century, describing how they battled personal and professional isolation in order to bring medical care and comfort to people living in the nation's most remote regions.
In particular, it chronicles the origins and development of the nursing services of the Australian Inland Mission, founded by Flynn of the Inland in 1912, whose archives constitute the most comprehensive and continuous account of nursing in the outback; and it contributes to a better understanding of the efforts made to provide Aboriginal people with medical and health care.
