Find books like florence nightingale from the worlds largest community of readers. A revered hero of her time, she died on august, 1910, in london. See all books authored by florence nightingale, including notes on nursing. A short, picture book biography of florence nightingale, a woman who defied cultural conventions to follow gods calling a term actually used in the book to be a nurse and helped revolutionize medical care. Fiction books where the main characters work with or under florence nightingale as nurses during war, are okay as well. Florence nightingale s most popular book is notes on nursing.
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