A Fortunate Man The Story of a Country Doctor Max Jacobson Then Okonkwo returns from exile

Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village

with a generous selection of reproductions of McCahon’s work (many never previously published)

different inner lives and different truths

In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction

Frances Morris places Martin's work in the art historical context of the time

A Fortunate Man The Story of a Country Doctor Max Jacobson Then Okonkwo returns from exileIn 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred. In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text and the photography of Jean Mohr reveal with extraordinary intensity the life of a remarkable man. It is a portrait of one selfless individual and the