A Sense of the World - How a Blind Man became History's Greatest Traveller

He was known simply as the `Blind Traveller' - a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the Australian outback. James Holman (1786-1857) became `one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored.'...