Tag: Sight

The Country of the Blind A Memoir at the End of Sight [Audiobook]


Free Download The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLB2Z7S2 | 2023 | 7 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 199 MB
Author: Andrew Leland
Narrator: Andrew Leland

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own. We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from the outside in, such that he now sees the world as if through a narrow tube. Soon-but without knowing exactly when-he will likely have no vision left.

(more…)

The Country of the Blind A Memoir at the End of Sight


Free Download Andrew Leland, "The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight"
English | ISBN: 1984881426 | 2023 | EPUB | 336 pages | 1 MB
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own

(more…)

Patient H69 The Story of My Second Sight


Free Download Vanessa Potter, "Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight "
English | ISBN: 1472936124 | 2018 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Imagine waking up, suddenly blind and paralyzed! It happened to "patient h69" in this gripping story of one women’s quest to understand her unique neurological illness and recover from it.

(more…)

Hidden in Plain Sight America’s Slaves of the New Millennium


Free Download Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco, "Hidden in Plain Sight: America’s Slaves of the New Millennium"
English | 2017 | pages: 269 | ISBN: 1440854033 | PDF | 2,5 mb
What types of human trafficking crimes are being committed here in the United States? Who are the victims of traffickers? How do we all unknowingly consume the services and products of slavery? And why are human traffickers able to maintain their illicit operations with relative impunity―indeed, with less than .01 percent of human traffickers ever being held accountable for their crimes?

(more…)