DR JOAN LOUWRENS has always been drawn to wild places, which are balm to her soul.
When her husband died, leaving her alone with two small daughters to raise, she threw herself wholeheartedly into 'adventure medicine', seeking out the world's most remote corners - on land and at sea - to practise healing, both her own and others'.
Working in wild places from the Kruger Park to the Australian Outback, the Atlantic Ocean islands, and both the Arctic and Antarctic, 'Doctor.
Jonathan Ball Publishers A wilder life: journey of an adventuring doctor, paperback/joan louwrens
