Excessive Bitters
Jenny Diski: The blind man who went around the world, 7 September 2006
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveller
by Jason Roberts.
Simon and Schuster, 382 pp., £12.99, August 2006,0 7432 3966 0 Show More
by Jason Roberts.
Simon and Schuster, 382 pp., £12.99, August 2006,
“... the island of Syra, Smyrna, Rhodes, Beyrout and Alexandria; from thence to Cairo, Suez, Moses’ Wells, &c. Then from Cairo he crossed the desert, to Jerusalem by way of El Arish, then to Jordan, the Dead Sea and Bethlehem; then from Jerusalem to Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee, Mount Carmel, Acre, Tyre, Sidon and Beyrout. From Beyrout he went to Tripoli, the ... ”