Second Sight (Paperback, Reissue)

Robert Hine knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted. 'The trauma seemed instructive enough' for him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of Second Sight, a sensitively written account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again.