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Touching The World: A Blind Woman, Two Wheels and 25,000 Miles by Cathy Birchall and Bernard Smith (view source)
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|summary=A comprehensive and compelling journey through a sightless woman's globe-trotting bike ride.
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''Cathy was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour in the summer of last year which is why publication of her book ''Touching the World'' had to be brought forward to August from the scheduled autumn release date. She bravely soldiered on doing pre and post publication interviews and appearances at motorbike shows and bookshops.''
''In typical Cathy style she outlived the doctors' expectations and was able to have Christmas with Bernard as his wife - they married on publication day - 20th August 2012. Towards the end her mobility was severely compromised but Bernard said that they still managed to "talk each other's ears off". They were a devoted couple.''
Consider the world. There might not be enough of it to go around in some over-crowded places, but there is enough variety in it - and us - for us all to have our own version of it; our own perceptions, experiences and expectations. Those are drastically altered from those of you and I if one is blind, as Cathy Birchall is. But that simple fact did not stop her taking a year out, and starting in August 2008, perch herself on her husband's pillion seat and be taken from one end of the earth to the other and back again.