Description: This book covers the life and times of Florence Nightingale who was born in 1820 in Florence, Italy to British parents and who went on to become remembered mostly as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. She is probably best known for her work with the British Military during the Crimean War but there are many other factors to her life that is less well known but told in this fascinating account. She died on August 13, 1910 aged 90 years and was later buried at her family grave at East Wellow, England.