Traveling Blind

Traveling Blind
Title Traveling Blind PDF eBook
Author Susan Krieger
Publisher Purdue University Press
Pages 219
Release 2010
Genre Guide dogs
ISBN 1557535574

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TRAVELING BLIND is a deeply reflective description of coming to terms with lack of sight. It reveals the invisible work of navigating with a guide dog while learning to perceive the world in new ways. The author travels with Teela, her lively "golden dog," through airports, city streets, and Southwest desert landscapes, exploring these surroundings with changed sight.

Traveling Blind

Traveling Blind
Title Traveling Blind PDF eBook
Author Laura Fogg
Publisher Medusa's Muse
Pages 223
Release 2007
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0979715202

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In her remarkable memoir, Fogg shares the unique life lessons she learned from the children she's worked with as a teacher of the visually impaired--lessons on patience, hope, doubt, loss, control, judgment and, ultimately, joy.

Going Blind

Going Blind
Title Going Blind PDF eBook
Author Mara Faulkner, OSB
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 245
Release 2012-03-15
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1438426909

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Memoir and meditation on blindness.

A Sense of the World

A Sense of the World
Title A Sense of the World PDF eBook
Author Jason Roberts
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 526
Release 2008-12-20
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0061979945

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He was known simply as the Blind Traveler -- a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Af-rica, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian outback. James Holman (1786-1857) became "one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored," triumphing not only over blindness but crippling pain, poverty, and the interference of well-meaning authorities (his greatest feat, a circumnavigation of the globe, had to be launched in secret). Once a celebrity, a bestselling author, and an inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the charismatic, witty Holman outlived his fame, dying in an obscurity that has endured -- until now. A Sense of the World is a spellbinding and moving rediscovery of one of history's most epic lives. Drawing on meticulous research, Jason Roberts ushers us into the Blind Traveler's uniquely vivid sensory realm, then sweeps us away on an extraordinary journey across the known world during the Age of Exploration. Rich with suspense, humor, international intrigue, and unforgettable characters, this is a story to awaken our own senses of awe and wonder.

American Rehabilitation

American Rehabilitation
Title American Rehabilitation PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 40
Release 1997
Genre Medical rehabilitation
ISBN

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Travel for the Handicapped

Travel for the Handicapped
Title Travel for the Handicapped PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Business, Trade, and Tourism
Publisher
Pages 86
Release 1984
Genre Handicapped
ISBN

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Traveling with Sugar

Traveling with Sugar
Title Traveling with Sugar PDF eBook
Author Amy Moran-Thomas
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 384
Release 2019-11-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0520297547

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Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a five-hundred-year-old global history of sweetness and power. Amid eerie injuries, changing bodies, amputated limbs, and untimely deaths, many people across the Caribbean and Central America simply call the affliction “sugar”—or, as some say in Belize, “traveling with sugar.” A decade in the making, this book unfolds as a series of crónicas—a word meaning both slow-moving story and slow-moving disease. It profiles the careful work of those “still fighting it” as they grapple with unequal material infrastructures and unsettling dilemmas. Facing a new incarnation of blood sugar, these individuals speak back to science and policy misrecognitions that have prematurely cast their lost limbs and deaths as normal. Their families’ arts of maintenance and repair illuminate ongoing struggles to survive and remake larger systems of food, land, technology, and medicine.