A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler Jesus Famous men of the period

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A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler Jesus Famous men of the periodHe was known simply as the Blind Traveler. A solitary, sightless adventurer, James Holman (1786 1857) fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, helped chart the Australian outbackand, astonishingly, circumnavigated the globe, becoming one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored. A Sense of the World is a spellbinding and moving rediscovery of one of history's