Second sight

by Hine, Robert V.

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[The author] knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, [he] lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky operation restored partial vision, returning [him] to the world of the sighted. "The trauma seemed instructive enough" for him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of [this book], an ... account of [his] journey into darkness and out again.-Back cover

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Second sight / Robert V. Hine.

Summary

[The author] knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, [he] lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky operation restored partial vision, returning [him] to the world of the sighted. "The trauma seemed instructive enough" for him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of [this book], an ... account of [his] journey into darkness and out again.-Back cover

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2006.

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Originally published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©1993.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 audio disc ; : 4 3/4 in.

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:ocm63110084
  • Dewey Decimal:362.41092

Table of Contents

Leadville -- Metamorphosis -- White canes -- Movies and light -- Last days of the cataract -- Second sight -- Returns -- Renounce your ways of seeing.

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Subjects

Biographies Blind Blind -- Biography. -- United States health Hine, Robert V. Personnes aveugles -- Biographies. -- É… United States

Writers

Hine, Robert V.

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