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By Andrea Bocelli, Stanislao Pugliese. 2000
Andrea Bocelli is one of the world's most successful male singers, selling 20 million recordings world-wide. He has become the…
popular face of classical music. Yet behind his extraordinary success lies a story of personal triumph. Andrea Bocelli was blinded at the age of twelve. Undeterred, he continued to pursue his childhood dream to sing, using Braille musical scores and lyric sheets. This is Bocelli's true story, told in his own words for the first time. He talks frankly about his blindness, the importance of his family, his stage fright, and the pressures of international stardom. 2000. Uniform title: Musica del silenzio.By Ved Mehta. 1984
As a blind nine year old, the author once held a hand in each of two, very different streams: a…
symbolic experience which he has carried with him all his life. He writes of his adolescent years between 1940 and 1949 and of how he became aware of the disparate currents flowing through his own life and that of his country. Sequel to "Vedi" (DC28720). 1984. (Continents of exile ; 4)By Robert Russell. 1973
A heart-warming adventure by an English professor, blind since five. In love with the St. Lawrence River, he buys a…
house on Hay Island near Ontario and tells of his own and his family's efforts to make the home livable. It is a unique account which shows the blind author hearing, smelling, and feeling the St. Lawrence, pursuing fishing, boating, and handiwork in spite of his blindness. Some strong language. 1973.By Jim Stovall. 1996
The author, blind before the age of thirty as a result of juvenile macular degeneration, encourages others to achieve through…
their dreams. Using examples from his own life, Stovall suggests that people can succeed by changing the way they think. He recommends that once a path is decided, people should find mentors to help them along the way. c1996.By Margaret Davidson. 1990
Voici l'histoire d'un petit garçon aveugle qui, à l'âge de douze ans, se jura de trouver le moyen de lire…
tout ce que ses yeux inutiles ne pouvaient déchiffrer. Années 3-6. 1999.By Pierre De Michelaine. 1985
Témoignage de Pierre de Michelaine. Il nous raconte dans quelles circonstances il a perdu la vue. Et surtout il nous…
parle des milieux hospitaliers, en particulier du corps médical, qu'il accuse de se faire le seul dépositaire du savoir et de vouloir dominer les patients par son autorité. 1985.By Roland Roux. 1982
Un homme dans la quarantaine, devenu aveugle à la suite d'un accident de chasse, raconte comment il a réussi sa…
réintégration dans la vie familiale, sociale, professionnelle et culturelle. Orientation chrétienne. Annexes centrées sur l'aspect médical de la cécité. 1982.By Ivy Ainsworth. 2009
Ivy Ainsworth is a blind eighty-six year old Plymouthian woman who has lived through the war and the austerity that…
followed. This is a story of everyday life with its joys and its tragedy. 2009.By Norman Silcock. 1997
Norman Silcock, born blind in 1915 in Yorkshire, studied at the School for the Blind. He taught at the Royal…
Normal College. He is known as a composer, notably of anthems, and as an organist. 1997.By Neville Tostevin. 1995
The text is an account of the feelings, thoughts and experiences of Neville and Michael during the 1930s and throughout…
the Occupation. It offers a new perspective of the life and times in Guernsey over 50 years ago. It also documents the early history of Blind Welfare in Guernsey. 1995.By Monique Raffray. 2004
By Jessie Hickford. 1973
The author thought life had come to an end when she lost her sight at the age of fifty. Then…
she met Prudence, her guide dog, and life once again became full and happy. 1973.By Bill Griffiths, Hugh Popham. 1989
Bill Griffiths lost both hands and both eyes when he was a prisoner of the Japanese in Java in 1942.…
Here he relates the story of how he overcame his tragedy, helped by the care and devotion of his wife, Alice. 1989.By Graeme Edwards. 1942
By Judy Taylor. 1989
Determined not to let her blindness prevent her living life to the full, and assured of her independence by her…
devoted guide dogs, Judy Taylor trained as a teacher and successfully taught sighted children in local secondary schools. She married and raised two sons. In 1987, an operation restored 25 per cent of normal vision, and she saw her husband and sons for the first time. 1989.By Charley Boswell, Curtis Anders. 1969
Boswell tells the story of his life, beginning with being blinded in 1944 and abandoning his hopes for a baseball…
career. After painful readjustment, he went on to become a successful businessman, father of three children, and National Blind Golf Champion. Boswell's account is based on his conviction that "lives frustrated by physical misfortune can be turned into new directions by new interests." 1969.By Sheila Hocken. 1990
Since regaining her sight in 1975, Sheila Hocken has been training difficult dogs. Here, she describes her canine family: Boris…
the overly-affectionate Rottweiler, Oscar the victim of a road accident and Katy who tussles with a bean-bag. 1990.By Mildred H Marshall. 1990
By Edith Fisher Hunter. 1963
By Marjorie Wilkins Campbell. 1965