Journey Into the Mind's Eye
Title | Journey Into the Mind's Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley Blanch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780445085817 |
Journey Into the Mind's Eye
Title | Journey Into the Mind's Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley Blanch |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2018-07-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1681371936 |
A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond. “My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category,” Lesley Blanch wrote about Journey into the Mind’s Eye, a book that remains as singularly adventurous and intoxicating now as when it first came out in 1968. Russia seized Lesley Blanch when she was still a child. A mysterious traveler—swathed in Siberian furs, bearing Fabergé eggs and icons as gifts along with Russian fairy tales and fairy tales of Russia—came to visit her parents and left her starry-eyed. Years later the same man returned to sweep her off her feet. Her love affair with the Traveller, as she calls him, transformed her life and fueled an abiding fascination with Russia and Russian culture, one that would lead her to dingy apartments reeking of cabbage soup and piroshki on the outskirts of Paris in the 1960s, and to Siberia and beyond.
A Journey Through the Mind's Eye
Title | A Journey Through the Mind's Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen B. Wilson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1986-08-01 |
Genre | Creative ability |
ISBN | 9780939249008 |
Nexus of Illusions
Title | Nexus of Illusions PDF eBook |
Author | Rivers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781088174678 |
Seeing with the Mind's Eye
Title | Seeing with the Mind's Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Samuels |
Publisher | Random House (NY) |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN |
This book opens the mind's eye to the inner world - whether as memories, fantasies, dreams, or visions. Over 100 illustrations.
The Mind's Eye
Title | The Mind's Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Fleischman |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 1999-09-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0805063145 |
Sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes her on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.
The Mind's Eye
Title | The Mind's Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Sacks |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2010-10-26 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0307594556 |
In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world. There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties. There is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read. And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side. Sacks explores some very strange paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by “tongue vision.” He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery—or vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading? The Mind’s Eye is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another person’s eyes, or another person’s mind.