Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See ** SIGNED **
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 2007
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, CanadaLower Beverley Better Books
AbeBooks seller since January 11, 2007
Condition: Used - Fine
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Author relates the experiences of Mike May, blind from the age of three, who was given the choice of having his sight restored and chose to see again. 306 pp. plus Illustration Credits. Book has light wear at spine ends. Unclipped DJ has edge wear. SIGNED by author in black ink. Bookseller's Inventory # 165337.
Seller Inventory # 005337
- Title
- Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See ** SIGNED **
- Author
- Kurson, Robert
- Publisher
- Random House, New York
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- By Author
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1400063353
- ISBN 13
- 9781400063352
- Illustrator
- Thomas Beck Stvan ( jacket design)
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Biography, Non-fiction, Signed
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. Even if the surgery worked, history was against him. Fewer than twenty cases were known worldwide in which a person gained vision after a lifetime of blindness. Each of those people suffered desperate consequences we can scarcely imagine.
There were countless reasons for May to pass on vision. He could think of only a single reason to go forward. Whatever his decision, he knew it would change his life.
Beautifully written and thrillingly told, Crashing Through is a journey of suspense, daring, romance, and insight into the mysteries of vision and the brain. Robert Kurson gives us a fascinating account of one man’s choice to explore what it means to see–and to truly live.
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Lower Beverley Better Books
Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
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