[Nfb-krafters-korner] off topic: great book!

[Cathy]

A book by and about an NFB member.

I loved this book! Cathy

 

Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph
of Trust at Ground Zero

Book Description

 

Publication Date: August 2, 2011 

 

Faith.  Trust.  Triumph.

 

"I trust Roselle with my life, every day. She trusts me to direct her. And
today is no different, except the stakes are higher." ―Michael Hingson

 

First came the boom―the loud, deep, unapologetic bellow that seemed to erupt
from the very core of the earth. Eerily, the majestic high-rise slowly
leaned

to the south. On the seventy-eighth floor of the World Trade Center's north
tower, no alarms sounded, and no one had information about what had happened

at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001―what should have been a normal workday
for thousands of people. All that was known to the people inside was what
they

could see out the windows: smoke and fire and millions of pieces of burning
paper and other debris falling through the air.

 

Blind since birth, Michael couldn't see a thing, but he could hear the
sounds of shattering glass, falling debris, and terrified people flooding
around

him and his guide dog, Roselle. However, Roselle sat calmly beside him. In
that moment, Michael chose to trust Roselle's judgment and not to panic.
They

are a team.

 

Thunder Dog allows you entry into the isolated, fume-filled chamber of
stairwell B to experience survival through the eyes of a blind man and his
beloved

guide dog. Live each moment from the second a Boeing 767 hits the north
tower, to the harrowing stairwell escape, to dodging death a second time as
both

towers fold into the earth.

 

It's the 9/11 story that will forever change your spirit and your
perspective. Thunder Dog illumiates Hingson's lifelong determination to
achieve parity

in a sighted world, and how the rare trust between a man and his guide dog
can inspire an unshakable faith in each one of us.

Michael Hingson, national ambassador for the Braille Literacy Campaign, is a
miraculous survivor of 9/11. He now owns The Michael Hingson Group, Inc., a

consulting firm concerning inclusiveness and diversity and a platform for
engaging speaking opportunities. A graduate of the University of California
(Irvine)

and a cum laude graduate with a master's degree in physics, Hingson has
never let blindness stop him from achieving his goals. His life is a
testimony

to the power of trust, perseverance, and the amazing bond between humans and
animals. Michael and his wife, Karen, live in the San Francisco Bay Area
with

three yellow lab guide dogs, Roselle (ret.), Africa, and Fantasia, and one
cat, Sherlock.