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Life Unseen - The Story of Blindness (Hardcover, New ed.)
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Life Unseen - The Story of Blindness (Hardcover, New ed.)
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Loot Price R485
Discovery Miles 4 850
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We are all fascinated by blindness: partly from fear of how we
would cope - and partly from the curiosity of experiencing the
world without sight. Any mention of the word 'blind' or 'blindness'
comes with an elusive coat of mystery and a sense of the unknown.
Life Unseen is the first accessible history of the subject written
in over fifty years - a powerful and erudite investigation of how
the physical state of not seeing, either from birth or during life,
affects the life of an individual, a community and a civilization.
Selina Mills, journalist and BBC producer, was born blind in one
eye and is now losing - completely - the remaining sight she has.
In this book, she provides an unsentimental social history of
blindness and the blind, with a uniquely personal slant,
investigating how the absence of vision has affected our lives, our
senses and society from antiquity to the present. Combining her own
experience with an examination of the history of blindness in the
Western world, she shows that sightlessness has been an 'active'
force in history, rather than the passive condition which is too
readily assumed.
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