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Annotation:The gripping true-life adventure of six blind Tibetan teenagers on a climbing expedition up formidable Mount Everest.
Annotation:“Knighton writes with rare insight and humour about a common experience from an uncommon perspective.
Annotation:Remarkable autobiography of Dr. Jane Poulson, a sighted medical scientist who became blind in the first year of her professional career. She learned not only to accept every challenge to her health, but also how to live and work in a sighted world. And she did more than survive, she went on to a stellar career as a physician, teacher and researcher.
Annotation:The author of the highly regarded Planet of the Blind instructs us in the fine art of listening.
Annotation:Aveugle depuis l'âge de sept ans, Jacques Lusseyran est devenu la tête d'une cellule de la Résistance durant la Seconde guerre mondiale et a vécu les horreurs de Buchenwald. Un récit passionné.
Annotation:Captures the stories of four extraordinary teenagers at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a public residential high school in Austin that has educated visually impaired students for more than 150 years.
Annotation:Sacks examines the consequences of aphasia (problems recognizing language), prosopagnosia (difficulty interpreting faces), loss of stereopsis (seeing depth with both eyes), and finally, partial (one eye) or complete blindness.
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