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

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

Jason Roberts

379 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
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He was known simply as the Blind Traveler. A solitary, sightless adventurer, James Holman (1786-1857) fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, helped chart the Australian outback--...

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