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A Sense Of The World by Jason Roberts
A Sense Of The World by Jason Roberts
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How A Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
382 pages, Paperback
23cm x 15cm (C-Format)
Condition: Very Good (Has very small/minor signs of wear)
Goodreads Rating: 4.09 * 1,406 ratings * 251 reviews
Genres: Nonfiction/Biography/Travel/History/Adventure/Historical
Jason Roberts has brought something great into the world. To know ourselves at all, we have to know about people like James Holman, and this is a brilliantly executed biography of this extraordinary, almost unbelievable man. Where the story of the blind traveller could have been maudlin or corny or draped in historical cobwebs, A Sense of the World is alive, magisterial, suspenseful, frequently funny. Full of wonder and with a commanding sense of narrative, this is one of the best and most life-affirming biographies I've ever read"DAVE EGGERS‘Roberts’ book is an excellent read…One understands that Roberts feels compelled to assert that the ‘story may at times seem improbable but it is true’. A Sense of the World would be a good read, even if the facts were in dispute, but they aren’t. Holman had an enviable capacity to travel with the conviction that he ‘was not wasting his time’ and we should count him, therefore, as one of the better men who had ‘done before’. He died in 1857 at the age of 70. A century and a half later his story has found an author with an enviable ability to tell the tale’The Spectator 29/7‘Jason Roberts’ looks at the life of James Holman, a blind lieutenant who trailblazed across Asia in the 19th century’Wanderlust Magazine August issue‘In telling Holman’s story, Roberts has to make an imaginative journey, and a leap of faith, of his he inhabits the mind and body of a blind man in the middle of the 19th century with enviable tact and skill.
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