An extract from Six Months in Sudan
James Maskalyk set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan, in 2007. The newest Médicins Sans Frontières’ doctor in the field, he arrived with only his training, full of desire to understand this most desperate part of the world. He returned home six months later profoundly affected by the experience.
Six Months in Sudan is an illuminating and affecting account of saving lives in one of the most harrowing and dangerous places on Earth. Read an extract from the memoir James Orbinski describes as ‘a rare window on the inner life of an aid worker, on what it means to be a humanitarian around the hard edges of war, and on the certain drive to go on.’
Read an extract of Six Months in Sudan
