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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797484203321

Autore

Krieger Susan

Titolo

Come, let me guide you : a life shared with a guide dog / / Susan Krieger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61249-389-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

New directions in the human-animal bond

Disciplina

362.4/1092 B

Soggetti

Guide dogs - United States

Blind - United States

Human-animal relationships - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Sharing the Road; Chapter 1: An Older Guide Dog; Chapter 2: When She Was Young; Chapter 3: This Furry Companion; Chapter 4: Our Intimate Bond; Part II: Searching for Sight; Chapter 5: Framing My Pictures; Chapter 6: In Search of a Camera; Chapter 7: On Not Seeing the Ground; Part III: Weathering Life's Losses; Chapter 8: On a Distant Hillside; Chapter 9: My Mother's Bracelet; Chapter 10: Visiting Her Memory; Chapter 11: Writing My Way through It; Part IV: Seeking Connection; Chapter 12: The Art of the Intimate Narrative

Chapter 13: Women and DisabilitiesChapter 14: A New Pair of Eyes; Bibliographic Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the ten-year span of their working life together. This is a book about being led by a dog to new places in the world and new places in the self, a book about facing life's challenges outwardly and within, and about reading those clues-those deeply felt signals-that can help guide the way. It is also, more broadly, about the importance of intimate connection in human-animal relationships, academic work, and personal life.In her previous book, Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision