A Sense Of The World: How A Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveller

From the back dust cover: "Jason Roberts has brought something great into the world. To know ourselves at all, we have to know people like James Holman, and this is a brilliantly executed biography of this extraordinary man. Where the story of the Blind Traveller could have been maudlin or corny or draped in historical cobwebs, A SENSE OF THE WORLD is alive, magisterial, suspenseful, frequently funny. Full of wonder and with a commanding sense of narrative, this is one of the best and most life-affirming biographies I have ever read. DAVE EGGERS "