Sugarbird Lady by Robin Miller and Harold Dicks

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks to foredges. Dust jacket has some staining to top edge front cover and tear to spine top. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective cover. Interior and binding are still very good.

The sequel to Robin Miller's autobiography Flying Nurse. Robin Miller, daughter of Horrie Miller and Mary Durack, died of cancer in 1975, aged just 35. Her husband, Dr Harold Dicks, used extracts from her diary to tell the rest of her story.

When she completed her training as a nurse and a pilot, Robin was offered the single-handed task of vaccinating the populations of the North West and the Kimberley against polio. This meant visiting isolated ports, townships, mining camps, missions, cattle stations and remote communities. Called the Sugar Bird Lady by children, her experiences ranged from the tense to the bawdy, from the dramatic to the pathetic.