[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Sense of the World
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
That sounds like a fascinating book.
Night before last on Nightline was an interesting
story about a group of students, some sighted, some
blind, and some partially blind, on a climbing trip to
Machu Picu (sp?) And somewhere recently I saw a
program about a blind climber of Mt. Everest.
Cindy
--- Stephen Baum <steve@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Finally, even I have submitted a book.
>
> A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became
> History's Greatest
> Traveler, by Jason Roberts.
>
> It was scanned with Kurzweil 1000 (of course), and I
> cleaned it up
> quite a bit. It should be a fairly easy validation,
> though it
> contains several hundred (at least) proper names.
> Its also a great
> read. Here is the beginning of a review from the
> Washington Post:
>
> "Before there were cars, long-distance buses,
> high-speed trains and
> jet airplanes, there was a man who traveled a
> quarter of a million
> miles. He did it by cart, by carriage, by sledge, by
> ship and by
> foot. And he did it "intermittently crippled" and
> "permanently
> blind." His name was James Holman, and for a time he
> was the most
> famous of the many intrepid English travelers who
> set out for faraway
> places at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
>
> Holman and his heroic achievements are all but
> forgotten today. Long
> before his death in 1857, he had faded into lonely
> obscurity, a relic
> of a romantic, pre-mechanized age. Jason Roberts
> first saw mention of
> him in a slim book called Eccentric Travelers. But
> Holman's only
> eccentricity was his urgent need "to cling to the
> road like a
> lifeline," writes Roberts in A Sense of the World,
> an eloquent and
> sympathetic biography of the long-gone voyager."
>
> Stephen
>
>
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