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For The Benefit Of Those Who See
Rosemary Mahoney
Dispatches from the World of the Blind
Little, Brown and Company
January 2014
On Sale: January 14, 2014
304 pages ISBN: 0316043427 EAN: 9780316043427 Kindle: B00CO7FKXE Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the
Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille
Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet,
and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who
founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she
learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved
to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As
part of her research, she spent three months teaching at
Tenberken's international training center for blind adults
in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the
shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as
their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength.
By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to
see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular
"quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental
connection to the world." Having read FOR THE BENEFIT OF
THOSE WHO SEE, you will never see the world in quite the
same way again.
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