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A sense of the world: how a blind man became history’s greatest traveler DB62703
Author: Roberts, Jason
Reading Time: 12 hours, 41 minutes
Read by: David Cutler
Subjects: Biography of Persons with Disabilities, Disability, Travel
Biography of Englishman James Holman (1786-1857), who was blinded at twenty-five after serving in the Napoleonic wars and who then achieved fame as a world traveler. Quoting from Holman’s memoirs, describes how he fought slavery in Africa, survived captivity in Siberia, charted the Australian outback, and published three books. 2006.
New York : Harper Collins Publishers, c2006.
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