Rosemary Mahoney

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1) For the benefit of those who see: dispatches from the world of the blind

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In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind ... She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded...

2) Down the Nile: alone in a fisherman's skiff

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Mahoney, Rosemary

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Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided her with a skiff and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians. Egyptian women don't row on the Nile, and tourists...

3) Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish women coming of age

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Mahoney, Rosemary

4) The early arrival of dreams: a year in China

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Mahoney, Rosemary

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Fawcett Columbine

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c1990

5) The singular pilgrim: travels on sacred ground

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Mahoney, Rosemary

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Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

2003

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The author explores the meaning and practice of religious pilgrimage as she recreates the Irish Catholic pilgrimage to Station Island, visits to holy sites in Israel, the Hindu pilgrimage to Varanasi, and a trip to Lourdes, among others.