Young fred hollows biography book

An awe-inspiring, inspirational and rollicking biography of the big-hearted, pioneering philanthropic eye-surgeon, Fred Hollows, written by his close friend, Australia's most trusted journalist, Ray Martin.

Public opinion polls consistently place Fred Hollows next to Sir Donald Bradman as the most respected/greatest Australian of the last century. A recent national survey found that 82 % of Australians were able to identify Fred Hollows simply from a photograph (which placed him higher than most Prime Ministers).

Dr fred hollows biography

Remarkably, another survey by the Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) found that 12% of people believe he is still alive. there is no doubt Fred was a truly remarkable person. After 21 years of operations there are now more than a million people around the globe who have had their cataract blindness fixed because of the direct intervention of the FHF, and indirectly - through the work of hundreds of Hollows trained surgeons, doctors and other