For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316043434ISBN-10:316043435UPC:9780316043434Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, EducationBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, People with Disabilities, Special EducationBook Topic:Physical DisabilitiesSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC460543NE
For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness....
Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316043434ISBN-10:316043435UPC:9780316043434Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, EducationBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, People with Disabilities, Special EducationBook Topic:Physical DisabilitiesSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC460543NE
Rose Tremain's fiction has won the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music and Silence) and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Restoration) and the Orange Prize (The Colour). Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, among other periodicals, and one was selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008. Rose Tremain lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer Richard...
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