Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side By: Susan Krieger [Audiobook]

Author: Susan Krieger
Narrated by: Ann M.

Traveling Blind is a romance, a travel adventure, an emotional quest, and a deeply reflective description of coming to terms with lack of sight. It reveals the invisible work of navigating with a guide dog while learning to perceive the world in new ways. Although an intensely personal account, Traveling Blind is not simply memoir, for it extends beyond one person’s experience to illuminate our understandings of vision informed by the academic fields of disability studies, feminist ethnography, and the study of human-animal bonds. What does it mean to “travel blind”? What is it like to live in a world where things are not black and white so much as shades of gray? How does it feel to navigate through constantly changing imagery that requires changing inner perspectives as well? What can experiences of blindness tell us about sight? The book confronts these questions and more.

In a series of beautifully textured stories, the author takes the listener on a fascinating journey as she travels with Teela, her lively “golden dog”, through airports, city streets, and southwest desert landscapes, exploring these surroundings with changed sight. This unusual account of travel will inspire the sighted as well as the blind, offering pointed observations on processes of learning to work with a service animal and on coming to terms with a disability. In remarkably visual detail, Krieger makes palpable an ambiguous world. Repeatedly confronted with social stereotypes (that she should be totally blind and incapable of mobility), she comes to value her own unique ways of seeing and her interdependence with both her animal and human companions. Her descriptions of exquisite natural landscapes and intimate personal moments will touch as well as educate listeners.

General Information
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 Title:                  Traveling Blind
 Author:                 Susan Krieger
 Read By:                Ann Richardson
 Copyright:              2011
 Audiobook Copyright:    2011
 Genre:                  Audiobook
 Publisher:              W F Howes
 Abridged:               No
Original Media Information
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 Media:                  Downloaded
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              New
File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         15
 Total Duration:         06:14:45
 Total MP3 Size:         172.77 MB
 Encoded At:             64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Stereo
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Traveling Blind is a romance, a travel adventure, an emotional quest, 
and a deeply reflective description of coming to terms with lack of 
sight. It reveals the invisible work of navigating with a guide dog 
while learning to perceive the world in new ways. Although an intensely 
personal account, Traveling Blind is not simply memoir, for it extends 
beyond one person's experience to illuminate our understandings of vision 
informed by the academic fields of disability studies, feminist ethnography, 
and the study of human-animal bonds. What does it mean to "travel blind"? 
What is it like to live in a world where things are not black and white 
so much as shades of gray? How does it feel to navigate through constantly 
changing imagery that requires changing inner perspectives as well? 
What can experiences of blindness tell us about sight? The book confronts 
these questions and more.
In a series of beautifully textured stories, the author takes the listener 
on a fascinating journey as she travels with Teela, her lively "golden 
dog", through airports, city streets, and southwest desert landscapes, 
exploring these surroundings with changed sight. This unusual account 
of travel will inspire the sighted as well as the blind, offering pointed 
observations on processes of learning to work with a service animal 
and on coming to terms with a disability. In remarkably visual detail, 
Krieger makes palpable an ambiguous world. Repeatedly confronted with 
social stereotypes (that she should be totally blind and incapable of 
mobility), she comes to value her own unique ways of seeing and her 
interdependence with both her animal and human companions. Her descriptions 
of exquisite natural landscapes and intimate personal moments will touch 
as well as educate listeners. 

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