Mother Teresa (Life Times) - Tapa dura

Part of a biographical series which looks at the lives and work of notable men and women and their effect on the world today. The book describes Mother Teresa's childhood and family background, her vocation to be a nun and her initial training, her early teaching career and the move to Calcutta where she began nursing and dedicated her life to helping the sick and destitute in India, working specifically with leper settlements. The book goes on to look at how her work soon spread across the world, the world's recognition of her achievements and it brings her work up to date with her visits to the site of the Armenian earthquake. The text includes extracts from diaries, letters and quotations from contemporaries, sections on world events of the time, fact finder pages, and significant dates.