![]() ![]() Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. "In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind.She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."-Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree 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. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. ![]() ![]() The celebrated author of Down the Nile travels to Tibet and India as part of her investigation into the world of the blind. Description for For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind Paperback. ![]()
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