The author describes his adolescence in India during the forties and tells how he adjusted to his blindness and learned Braille, English, bicycling, typing, roller skating, and horseback riding

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Ved Mehta was a staff writer on The New Yorker for thirty-three years. He has been a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and has held the Rosencrantz chair in Writing at Yale University. Dark Harbor is an independent book in a continuing literary autobiography, Continents of Exile. The earlier books in the series are All for Love, Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker, Up at Oxford, The Stolen Light, Sound Shadows of the New World, The Ledge Between the Streams, Vedi, Mamaji, and Daddyji. His other books include Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles, Portrait of India, and Fly and the Fly-Bottle.

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