[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Sense of the World
- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:25:55 -0400
Stephen Baum wrote: Finally, even I have submitted a book.
Go Stephen! Now how many other software engineers for popular OCR programs
can say the same?? I think this is a challenge!
And it sounds like a good book, too. I read that review in the Post and it
crossed my mind to find the book and scan it, but that just never happened.
Now I can just read it.
Thanks, Stephen, for your direct approach to providing information to
volunteers about Kurzweil, and now for walking the walk!
Peace and Hope,
Donna
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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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