For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind

"A multilayered, utterly gripping account of life among the developing world's blind population." —New York Times

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 ...