A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
Jason Roberts
ISBN 10: 0007161069 ISBN 13: 9780007161065
Published by HarperCollins, 2006
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Offers a stirring portrait of James Holman, a nineteenth-century adventurer renowned for his solo journey around the world, despite a blindness brought on by a mysterious shipboard illness during the Napoleonic Wars.
Product Description: A Sense of the World In an era when the blind were routinely warehoused in asylums, James Holman was studying medicine, fighting the slave trade in Africa, hunting rogue elephants, surviving a frozen captivity in Siberia, and circumnavigating the world alone in the 19th century. Full description
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Title: A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became...
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
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