title: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (Kaplan Classics of Medicine)
author:  Mary Seacole 
description: <b>Mary Jane Seacole</b> (1805-1881) was a Jamaican nurse and a heroine of the Crimean War. When she was refused a post as a nurse during the Crimean War, Seacole went on her own initiative and in 1856 established a medical clinic at her own expense in order to provide ""a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers."" Like Florence Nightingale, she is remembered a champion for nurses.
zlib_text: #  WONDERFUL  
    
  ADVENTURES OF MRS. SEACOLE  
    
  IN MANY LANDS
  
  ## EDITED BY W. J. S.
  
  **WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PREFACE**  
    
  **BY**
  
  ### W. H. RUSSELL, ESQ.,
  
  **THE “TIMES” CORRESPONDENT IN THE CRIMEA.**
  
  LONDON:  
  JAMES BLACKWOOD, PATERNOSTER ROW.  
  1857.
  
  LONDON:  
  THOMAS HARRILD, PRINTER, 11, SALISBURY SQUARE,  
  FLEET STREET.
  
  DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION,  
    
  TO  
    
  MAJOR-GENERAL LORD ROKEBY, K.C.B.,  
    
  BY HIS LORDSHIP’S  
    
  HUMBLE AND MOST GRATEFUL SERVANT,  
    
  
  > MARY SEACOLE.
  
  * * *
  
  ## TO THE READER.
  
  I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce
  Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which must, from
  the circumstances in which the subject of it was placed, be unique in
  literature.
  
  If singleness of heart, true charity, and Christian works; if trials and
  sufferings, dangers and perils, encountered boldly by a helpless woman on her
  errand of mercy in the camp and in the battle-field, can excite sympathy or
  move curiosity, Mary