Footprints in the Dust, Roberta Gately
Footprints in the Dust, Roberta Gately
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Footprints in the Dust
Nursing, Survival, Compassion, and Hope with Refugees Around the World

Author: Roberta Gately

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/18/2020

Synopsis

The word “refugee” sparks conversation and fuels emotion. There are more than twenty-two million refugees worldwide and another sixty-five million who have been forcibly displaced. But who are these people? Images filter into our consciousness via dramatic photographs—but these photos only offer a glimpse into their stories. As a young ER nurse in Boston, Roberta Gately was stopped cold by stark images of big-bellied babies with empty haunting stares in the news. She called the aid organization featured in the news story, and, within two months, she had become a humanitarian aid worker. Soon she learned that the world into which millions of children around the globe are born is fraught with unspeakable horrors. The only certainties for so many of these children are disease and devastating injury. Footprints in the Dust aims to share the real stories of these refugees in hopes of revealing the truth about their experience.

About Roberta Gately

Roberta Gately is a nurse, humanitarian aid worker, and writer who has served in war zones around the world. She has written on the subject of refugees for the Journal of Emergency Nursing and BBC World News Online. A regular speaker on the plight of the world's refugees and displaced, she currently resides near Boston.

About Susan Boyce

Susan Boyce is an award-winning audiobook narrator. She has recorded over ninety audiobooks in a variety of categories, and her talents have been put to work by industry giants such as Amica, Hasbro, and Mattel. She earned a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Rhode Island in 1979 and has worked on-stage at Trinity Repertory Theatre, Worcester Foothills Theatre, The Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, and every major Ragtime and Traditional Jazz Festival in the United States.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on August 19, 2019

As always, I am a day late and a few $$ short when it comes to most things. I had intended to have this review timed to the actual 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing on July 20, but as fate would have it I was still nose deep in the middle of The University of Nebraska’s excellent document......more

Goodreads review by Joao on April 04, 2025

Another thorough account of NASA missions. Now part 3 of the series written by Colon Burgess, this is a more loose format book with a lot of anecdotal stories and fait divers to pad the book. Again, the coverage of Russian missions is welcome, but the chapters vary a lot informat. The Apollo Soyuz m......more

Goodreads review by Smh624 on November 20, 2021

Final volume of the 3 part series about space travel from the late 50s to the mid-70s including both the American and the Soviet Union/Russian programs. Growing up near the Manned Spacecraft Center in Texas, NASA and the space program were a huge part of my life. This volume, focused on the Apollo p......more

Goodreads review by Ken on August 06, 2017

Pretty good book. Probably could have been better given the topic.......more

Goodreads review by Art on March 08, 2019

Another Great entry in this series. Space travel is so fascinating, and I think we should return to more human space exploration.......more

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