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Sound-shadows of the New World (Continents of exile. #5.)
By Ved Mehta. 1986
In 1949, 15-year-old Ved went to America to attend the Arkansas School for the Blind. In the three years there…
he fell afoul of two members of staff: the PE teacher who believed only the combative could survive in a sighted world and an Evangelical Baptist musician who told him he was damned because he was a Hindu. Girls too were a problem... but he learnt to get around Little Rock himself by perceiving objects and terrain by means of "sound-shadows". Sequel to "The ledge between the streams" (DC28718). 1986. (Continents of exile ; 5).Self-healing: my life and vision (Arkana Ser.)
By Meir Schneider. 1989
A remarkable Russian Israeli who has gone some way to understanding the latent power of self-healing which is locked inside…
human beings. In this book Meir Schneider relates the experiences of his own life and his later work with people affected by chronic headaches, polio and muscular dystrophy. Meir was born blind, the son of a deaf father, yet he has insisted upon living a regular life making no concessions to himself for his lack of sight, and offering hope to others. 1989.Now we see through a glass darkly: musing on failing sight can be funny
By Vie Tulloch. 2003
When Vie Tulloch, an accomplished sculptress, was told she had serious sight problems that were incurable, her life was initially…
surrounded by an aura of self-pity. She reluctantly accepted that her carving days were over. However, with characteristic stoicism and jollity she has addressed the situation and this book is an account of her frustrating battle against the odds. 2003.A fictionalized biography of William Moon. Unable to enter the Ministry after he became completely blind at the age of…
twenty, he determined that he would devote his life to blind care and welfare. In the course of teaching, he developed the embossed script for which he is famous, and which he used to print books, magazines and pictures. 1992.Blind man's buff
By H. Garland Minton. 1974
Late one evening in February 1966, the author was drinking a cup of tea in Waterloo Station. Suddenly, everything around…
him was enveloped in a veil of mist and, within minutes, he was blind. This is an account of that experience and of his efforts to come to terms with the catastrophe. 1974.Vedi (Continents of exile. #3.)
By Ved Mehta. 1982
Blinded by meningitis, Vedi is sent to be educated in an Indian orphanage for the blind at the age of…
five. This premature separation from his rich parents, coupled with his survival amongst the blind former street urchins teaches Vedi self-reliance, giving him the basis for a meaningful life. 1982.The stolen light (Continents of exile. #6.)
By Ved Mehta. 1989
This volume of Ved Mehta's ambitious project to document his own life story deals with the author's experiences at college,…
and his young and illuminating adulthood in California. Ved, who set out to prove himself as a blind student among the sighted, refused to acknowledge gloomy predictions for his future made by `specialists'. Ved Mehta manages at least in part, to reconcile the conflicting forces of the Indian and American, sighted and unsighted worlds. Sequel to "Sound-shadows of the new world" (DC28717). 1989. (Continents of exile ; 6)The ledge between the streams (Continents of exile. #4.)
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)Dark days: recollections of two blind boys in wartime Guernsey
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.After Emma
By Sheila Hocken. 1988
Sheila Hocken's clan of chocolate Labradors began with Emma, a guide dog during the author's temporary blindness, and has expanded…
to include a German shorthaired pointer. In this story, she introduces four newcomers. Sheila also reveals her fear that an eye infection may once again threaten her sight. 1988.Eyes at my feet
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.Blind to misfortune: a story of great courage in the face of adversity
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.Keep in touch
By Graeme Edwards. 1942
One of the lucky ones
By Lucy Ching. 1980
The true story of a blind Chinese girl's quietly persistent courage in the face of prejudice. Trained by the Royal…
Commonwealth Society for the Blind, she overcame apparently insuperable difficulties in her pioneering work among the elderly and handicapped of Hong Kong. 1980.Images from the dark: the story of Carolyn James
By Andrew Whitehouse. 1990
Carolyn James is a talented painter, especially of landscapes. She is completely blind. In a full and varied life she…
was constantly frustrated by failing sight. Only when her blindness became total did her imagination and her daughter's paint-box free her to make pictures. Within a year her work was exhibited, and soon she appeared on television and radio. She began writing poems, which became song lyrics, and now in her 40s is a creative artist in both media. 1990.The windhorse
By Elaine Brook, Julie Donnelly. 1986
Julie Donnelly has been blind since the age of eight - the result of glaucoma. She is a switchboard operator…
in a London bank and travels to and from work with her yellow Labrador guide dog, Bruno, her first release from the prison of blindness. She met Elaine Brook, an experienced mountaineer, and her horizons took another great leap. After learning to climb in this country they began to plan the impossible: the trek, in winter, to the 18,000 foot summit of Kala Patthar. 1986.Cockeyed: a memoir
By Ryan Knighton. 2006
Knighton, who teaches at Capilano College in Vancouver, began losing his sight early enough in life that milestones such as…
his first driving lesson and his first relationships with girls were anything but ordinary. Experiences in adulthood covered (often humorously) in this memoir include attending college in Vancouver, teaching English in South Korea, and getting married. Canada Reads 2012. 2006.Louis Braille, l'enfant de la nuit
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.As I see it
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.Things no longer there: a memoir of losing sight and finding vision
By Susan Krieger. 2005
Krieger, a sociologist and writer who is also losing her vision to a rare eye disease, goes bird watching in…
New Mexico, learns to use a white cane, revisits an old love, and returns to the summer camp of her youth, while reflecting on the nature of blindness and sight. She explains that that while outer landscapes may change, the inner visions persist, giving meaning and jarring the senses with a very different picture from what appears before the eyes. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.