Crooked Paths Made Straight: A Blind Teacher’S Adventures Traveling Around the World
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In Karachi, she traveled the streets by rickshaw and struggled to master the Urdu language. In India, she explored the Taj Mahal, and in Burma she slept in a room where lizards raced up and down the walls. At a time when both women and blind people were generally seen as too helpless for solo travel, Grant fearlessly defied conventions. A dedicated teacher with a lifelong commitment to learning, her mission was to learn all she could about education in the countries she visited, in particular the education provided to blind children.
Completed in 1965, Crooked Paths Made Straight recounts Grants journey, a story of dreams deferred that did not shrivel but sprang to life again and again.
Isabelle L. D. Grant
Isabelle L. D. Grant (1896-1977) grew up in Scotland and immigrated to the United States in 1924. She taught thirty-two years in the Los Angeles public schools, continuing to teach after she lost her sight in 1948. Following retirement, she traveled extensively. Grant was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972. Deborah Kent is the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction titles for children and teens. She lives in Chicago and is an active member of the National Federation of the Blind.
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