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He was known simply as the Blind Traveler---a solitary, sightless adventurer who,
astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in
Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian
outback. James Holman became one of the greatest wonders of the world he so
sagaciously explored, triumphing not only over blindness but crippling pain,
poverty, and the interference of well-meaning authorities (his greatest feat, a
circumnavigation of the globe, had to be launched in secret.) Once a celebrity, a
best-selling author, and an inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis
Burton, the charismatic, witty Holman outlived his fame, dying in an obscurity that
has endured---until now.
A Sense of the World is a moving rediscovery of one of history’s most epic lives.
astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in
Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian
outback. James Holman became one of the greatest wonders of the world he so
sagaciously explored, triumphing not only over blindness but crippling pain,
poverty, and the interference of well-meaning authorities (his greatest feat, a
circumnavigation of the globe, had to be launched in secret.) Once a celebrity, a
best-selling author, and an inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis
Burton, the charismatic, witty Holman outlived his fame, dying in an obscurity that
has endured---until now.
A Sense of the World is a moving rediscovery of one of history’s most epic lives.
| A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts Harper Collins, NY 2006 Airs January 3 thru February 12, 2007 |
| (non-fiction) |
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