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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist
£7.50 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781912489428 | ISBN 10: 1912489422
Two million people in the UK live with sight loss, and many more worldwide. Yet the general population knows very little about the day-to-day life of the blind, who must move through a world not designed with them in mind, from city planning and tech ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781258590 | ISBN 10: 1781258597
'It's a gift. Not a gift I want, but it is a gift' Â Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124222 | ISBN 10: 1910124222
'From the moment I watched a documentary of Chris Bonington and Tom Patey climb the perpendicular flanks of the Old Man of Hoy I knew that my life would not be complete until I had followed in their footholds. That was in 1983 when I was thirteen. Wi ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780316043434 | ISBN 10: 0316043435
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. F ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539537 | ISBN 10: 0099539535
Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed like an assault especially tailored for someone whose life consisted of reading a ... more
View book details£22.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780472050642 | ISBN 10: 0472050648
The Songs of Blind Folk explores the ways that the lives and careers of blind and visually impaired African American musicians and singers have mirrored the changes in America's image of African Americans and the social positioning and possibilities ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781590170670 | ISBN 10: 1590170679
Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work — one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind ... more
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