Jasmine and Arnica : A Blind Woman's Journey Around India

United Kingdom: Travellers Eye, 2001. 250 pages plus b/w photographs. Very Good 'With the benefit of hindsight any extreme venture can be seen as lunacy or bravery; Jasmine and Arnica certainly fits into one of these categories. Many would baulk at the idea of a white woman travelling India alone; a blind, white woman travelling alone sounds impossible. Throughout her childhood Nicola had been fascinated by images of the Sub-Continent and was determined both to realise her dream and to push back the stifling constraints imposed by perceptions of her disability. Depending on her third eye, or sixth sense, she explores India from the inside, her account is both sensuous and enormously visual as she gradually rebuilds her shattered self-confidence, regains her desire to live life, and rediscovers her almost forgotten love of writing'. Foreword by Kate Adie.. 1st Edition Paperback . SofCover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.