Meredith's review
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts (Goodreads author!)
This book is great. A true story of James Holman's life and travel in the late 1700's and early 1800's. He was blind and he circumnavigated the world in 1832. Impoverished and in bad health he traveled to the boundaries of the known world and further. An interesting section about Holman's participation in Britain's attempt to stop slave trade to the US. Britian sent British naval ships to intercept the slave ships off the coast of Africa and return the people to their homes. Their attempt was not very successful.
