Traveling Blind
Title | Traveling Blind PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Fogg |
Publisher | Medusa's Muse |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0979715202 |
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.
Traveling Blind
Title | Traveling Blind PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Krieger |
Publisher | Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | 219 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Guide dogs |
ISBN | 1557535574 |
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.
Have Dog, Will Travel
Title | Have Dog, Will Travel PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Kuusisto |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-03-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1451689802 |
In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence. Stephen Kuusisto was born legally blind—but he was also raised in the 1950s and taught to deny his blindness in order to "pass" as sighted. Stephen attended public school, rode a bike, and read books pressed right up against his nose. As an adult, he coped with his limited vision by becoming a professor in a small college town, memorizing routes for all of the places he needed to be. Then, at the age of thirty-eight, he was laid off. With no other job opportunities in his vicinity, he would have to travel to find work. This is how he found himself at Guiding Eyes, paired with a Labrador named Corky. In this vivid and lyrical memoir, Stephen Kuusisto recounts how an incredible partnership with a guide dog changed his life and the heart-stopping, wondrous adventure that began for him in midlife. Profound and deeply moving, this is a spiritual journey, the story of discovering that life with a guide dog is both a method and a state of mind.
Driving Blind
Title | Driving Blind PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2013-04-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062242245 |
The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one.
A Sense of the World
Title | A Sense of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Roberts |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 526 |
Release | 2008-12-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0061979945 |
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.
Report of the Iowa State Traveling Library
Title | Report of the Iowa State Traveling Library PDF eBook |
Author | Iowa State Traveling Library |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Traveling Blind
Title | Traveling Blind PDF eBook |
Author | Letty Lozano |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2012-12-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780934955973 |