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Includes stories of six individuals who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing "indispensable" senses and faculties: the ability to read, the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, and the sense of sight. This book is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation.

"This book offers an unexpected and unprecedented account of blindness and sight. Legally blind since the age of eleven, Georgina Kleege draws on her experiences to offer a detailed testimony of visual impairment - both her own view of the world and the world's view of the blind." "Kleege describes the negative social status of the blind, analyzes stereotypes of the blind that have been perpetuated by movies, and discusses how blindness has been portrayed...