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

Paperback • 2007 • English

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

By Jason Roberts

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About the book

Offers a stirring portrait of James Holman, a nineteenth-century adventurer renowned for his solo journey around the world, despite a blindness brought on by a mysterious shipboard illness during the Napoleonic Wars. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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9780007161263

Publisher

HARPER PERENNIAL

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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