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  2. The Country of the Blind - Wikipedia

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    "Carefully,' he cried, with a finger in his eye." – illustration by Claude Allin Shepperson from "The Country of the Blind", published in The Strand Magazine, April 1904. While attempting to climb the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl (a fictitious mountain in Ecuador), a mountaineer named Nuñez slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. At the end of his descent, down a snow-slope ...

  3. The Country of the Blind and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    The Country of the Blind and Other Stories is a collection of thirty-three fantasy and science fiction short stories written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1894 and 1909. It was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1911. [1] All the stories had first been published in various weekly and monthly periodicals. Twenty-seven of ...

  4. Country of the Blind - Wikipedia

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    Published in 1997, Country of the Blind is Christopher Brookmyre's second novel. Following the adventures of Quite Ugly One Morning, the storyline finds Parlabane living in domestic bliss and about to get married. As part of the engagement package, he has promised his soon-to-be-wife that he will give up the more dangerous and illegal parts of ...

  5. H. G. Wells bibliography - Wikipedia

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    The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1947), collection of 3 short stories and 1 novelette: "The Country of the Blind" (novelette), "The Door in the Wall", "The Truth About Pyecraft", "A Deal in Ostriches" 28 Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells (1952), collection of 2 novels, 22 short stories and 4 novelettes/novellas:

  6. How the blind identify and perceive race - AOL

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    Sociologist Asia Friedman, who teaches at the University of Delaware, explored the process and function of racial identification by the blind by interviewing 25 people who became or were born ...

  7. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

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    The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight is a 2023 memoir by Andrew Leland. Leland has retinitis pigmentosa, which means that although he grew up sighted, but as a teenager, he began losing his vision. At the time of the memoir, Leland's vision is described as though he is seeing through a narrow tube.

  8. Quite Ugly One Morning - Wikipedia

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    Country of the Blind Quite Ugly One Morning is Christopher Brookmyre 's first novel , and it introduces Jack Parlabane, the writer's most used character. It was published to popular and critical acclaim, winning the inaugural Critics' First Blood Award for the best first crime novel of the year.

  9. Exclusive-Sudan drops out of hunger-monitor system on eve of ...

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    Without independent analysis, we’re flying blind into this storm of food insecurity.” A diplomat with Sudan's mission to the United Nations in New York didn’t immediately respond to a ...