For the benefit of those who see : dispatches from the world of the blind
(Playaway Audiobook)

"LIGHT."

Title from container.

"HD."

Release date supplied by publisher.

Previously released by Hachette Audio, ℗2014.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Read by the author.

In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, Rosemary Mahoney blends science, history, and firsthand reporting to investigate the world of the blind. She travels to Tibet to tell the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind there, 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. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals the misapprehensions and shocking oppression endured by the world's blind as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. Mahoney tells the stories of people who are marginalized yet manage not just to survive but to find joy and humor in life and to prevail. By living among the blind, she enables us to see them in fascinating close-up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world."