Sense of the World How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler

Name: Sense of the World How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
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ISBN: 9780007161065

ISBN-10: 0007161069

ISBN-13: 9780007161065

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jason Roberts

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He was known simply as the Blind Traveler -- a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Af-rica, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian outback. James Holman (1786-1857) 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 bestselling author, and an inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the charismatic, witty Holman outlived his…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Maps


Introduction: The World and Its Multiplying Delights


Prelude: I See Things Better with My Feet



The Child in the Compass



Scarcely Worth Drowning



The Very Height of Expectation



Nor Sun Nor Moon



The Seven Gentlemen



A Smattering of Physic



A Whimsical Invalid



The Experimental Citizen



A Circuit of the World



True Sentiments and Powers



The Sleeping Land



A Salvo Upon All Defects



White Man's Grave



My Dangerous and Novel Course



Assumming a More Alarming Character



The Arrival of an English Traveler



The Pleasure of His Intimacy



Raise the Soul to Flame


Acknowledgments


Notes and Sources