[nagdu] NLS book with guide dog

[Wayne Merritt]

This is a great read. I'm working my way through this digital book and
loving every minute of it. I would highly recommend it.

Wayne

On 9/28/09, Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net> wrote:
> Cruising the new releases of digital books from NLS, I see Bill Irwin's
> account of hiking the Applachian Trail with his Seeing Eye dog.  I've
> pasted the blurb below, in case anyone is interested.  I'm sure it's
> available on cassette, too.
>
> Blind Courage
> Irwin, Bill. Read by Terence Aselford. Reading time 10 hours 31 minutes.
> Blindness and Physical Handicaps
>
> A variety of problems involving family, alcoholism, and blindness prompted
> middle-aged Bill Irwin's decision to tackle the 2,000-mile- long
> Appalachian
> Trail with his dog guide Orient. For eight months in 1990, the
> self-proclaimed non-hiker made his way along the sometimes treacherous
> trail--a feat he
> credits to God. In describing the trip, Irwin stresses the helpfulness of
> the other "thru-hikers" he met.
>
>
>
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