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Author:
Kurson, Robert.
Title:
Crashing through [electronic resource] : a story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see Robert Kurson.
Publisher:
Books on Tape
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 146814 KB).
Subject:
Audiobooks.
Blind--Case studies.--United States--Case studies.
Blind--Biography.--Biography.
Eye--Biography.--Patients--United States--Biography.
May, Mike, 1953-
Other Authors:
Ordunio, Doug, 1950-
Notes:
Downloadable audio file. Duration: 8:39:39. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Read by Doug Ordunio.
Summary:
In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure--the stunning true story of one man's heroic odyssey from blindness into sight. Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May's vision. It would allow him to drive, to read, to see his children's faces. He began to contemplate an astonishing new world: Would music still sound the same? Would sex be different? Would he recognize himself in the mirror? Would his marriage survive? Would he still be Mike May? The procedure was filled with risks, some of them deadly, others beyond May's wildest dreams.
ISBN:
9781415938737
1415938733 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)\9781415938737 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
Locations:
XBPE737 -- Lied Public Library - Clarinda (Clarinda)
GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

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