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The Resource Crashing through : a story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see, Robert Kurson, (electronic resource)
Crashing through : a story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see, Robert Kurson, (electronic resource)
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The item Crashing through : a story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see, Robert Kurson, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Crashing through : a story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see, Robert Kurson, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches.
- Summary
- In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure--the stunning true story of one man's heroic odyssey from blindness into sight. 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
- Language
- eng
- Note
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- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 8:39:39
- OverDrive Audiobook
- Isbn
- 9781415938737
- Label
- Crashing through : a story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see
- Title
- Crashing through
- Title remainder
- a story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert Kurson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure--the stunning true story of one man's heroic odyssey from blindness into sight. 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
- Accompanying matter
- libretto or text
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kurson, Robert
- Dewey number
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- 362.4/1092
- B
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- HV1792.M39
- LC item number
- K87 2007ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- biography
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Doug Ordunio
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Ordunio, Doug
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- May, Mike
- Blind
- Eye
- Blind
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Crashing through : a story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see, Robert Kurson, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Note
-
- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 8:39:39
- OverDrive Audiobook
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781415938737
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)144527942
- ocn144527942
- OCoLC
- System details
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- Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 146814 KB)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Crashing through : a story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see, Robert Kurson, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Note
-
- Downloadable audio file
- Title from: Title details screen
- Unabridged
- Duration: 8:39:39
- OverDrive Audiobook
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- stereophonic
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Form of item
- electronic
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781415938737
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- unknown
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)144527942
- ocn144527942
- OCoLC
- System details
-
- Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 146814 KB)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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