{"product_id":"9781524732974","title":"In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe remarkable story of one woman's search for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II—a life that sparked a heroic career, but also hid a secret past.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years. A member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, the French-born Spoerry learned how to fly a plane at the age of forty-five and earned herself the cherished nickname, \"Mama Daktari\"—\"Mother Doctor\"—from the people of Kenya. Yet few knew what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa. Now, in the first comprehensive account of her life, Dr. Spoerry's revered selflessness gives way to a past marked by rebellion, submission, and personal decisions that earned her another nickname—this one sinister—working as a \"doctor\" in a Nazi concentration camp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Full Flight\u003c\/i\u003e explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one's troubled past simply by doing good in the present. Informed by Spoerry's own journals, a trove of previously untapped files, and numerous interviews with those who knew her in Europe or Africa, John Heminway takes readers on a remarkable journey across a haunting African landscape and into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059675611376,"sku":"9781524732974","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781524732974_p0.jpg?v=1763737854","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781524732974","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}