Podcast appearances and mentions of james holman

Who was British Regency-era adventurer, author, social observer, and world traveler (including North America), James Holman (1786-1857), known as the 'Blind Traveler'? Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/HdVYZv4G2eM which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. James Holman books available at https://amzn.to/3YCOb5R  History of the Papacy podcast available at https://amzn.to/3QwqQk9 This American President podcast available at https://amzn.to/44218He History Unplugged podcast available at https://amzn.to/3YthqYx Parthenon Podcast Network available at https://amzn.to/43cJemi Parthenon Podcast Network website: https://www.parthenonpodcast.com   Thanks for the many wonderful comments, messages, ratings and reviews. All of them are regularly posted for your reading pleasure on https://patreon.com/markvinet where you can also get exclusive access to Bonus episodes, Ad-Free content, Extra materials, and an eBook Welcome Gift when joining our growing community on Patreon or Donate on PayPal at https://bit.ly/3cx9OOL and receive an eBook GIFT. Support this series by enjoying a wide-range of useful & FUN Gadgets at https://twitter.com/GadgetzGuy and/or by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM (Amazon gives us credit at no extra charge to you). It costs you nothing to shop using this FREE store entry link and by doing so encourages & helps us create more quality content. Thanks! Mark Vinet's HISTORICAL JESUS podcast is available at https://parthenonpodcast.com/historical-jesus                                                            Mark's TIMELINE video channel at https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Twitter: https://twitter.com/TIMELINEchannel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 YouTube Podcast Playlist: https://www.bit.ly/34tBizu Podcast: https://parthenonpodcast.com/history-of-north-america TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@historyofnorthamerica Books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM Linktree: https://linktr.ee/WadeOrganization                                   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rainer Zitelmann hat für sein 2021 erschienenes Buch „Ich will: Was wir von erfolgreichen Menschen mit Behinderung lernen können“ 20 berühmte Menschen mit Behinderung porträtiert, darunter international bekannte Persönlichkeiten, wie die eben genannten. Im Buch kommen aber auch behinderte Menschen vor, die hierzulande weniger berühmt sind, so etwa die US amerikanische Buchautorin Helen Keller. Die 1880 geborene Literatin konnte von Geburt an weder sehen noch hören. Sie war also das, was man damals als taubblind beschrieb. Oder auch den blind Traveller James Holman, der die halbe Welt bereiste. Ein Kapitel des Buches ist der im Jahre 1847 geborenen Unternehmerin Margarete Steiff gewidmet. Sie hat ein weltweit bekanntes Stofftierimperium aufgebaut, die Teddybären der Marke sind bei Sammlern begehrt. Unter den Porträtierten ist auch ein blinder Bergsteiger, der die sieben höchsten Gipfel der Welt bestiegen hat und ein Motivationsredner, der ohne Arme und Beine geboren wurde.  Das Vorwort zum Buch schrieb übrigens Saliya Kahawatte, der seine Lebensgeschichte im Buch „Mein Blinddate mit dem Leben“ niedergeschrieben hat. Auch der Autor Christy Brown, dessen Lebensgeschichte im 1989 erschienenen irisch-britischen Drama "Mein linker Fuß" verfilmt wurde, ist in diesem Sammelband vertreten. In der Liste der Protagonisten tauchen aber auch Künstlergrößen wie Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Andrea Bocelli und Thomas Quasthoff auf.Auslöser für das Zustandekommen dieser Sammlung von Biographien war, dass bei Rainer Zitelmann selbst eine Augenerkrankung diagnostiziert wurde. Der 1957 geborene Autor hat mehrere Motivationsbücher verfasst und sich auch mit der Soziologie der „Reichen“ beschäftigt. Rainer Zitelmann hat Soziologie und Geschichte studiert und in beiden Fachrichtungen promoviert. Im Gespräch mit Sandra Knopp und Christoph Dirnbacher spricht er über Erfolgsfaktoren und auch über den Neidfaktor. Letzterer begleitet erfolgreiche Menschen mit Behinderung ebenso wie nicht behinderte erfolgreiche Zeitgenossen. „Ich will: Was wir von erfolgreichen Menschen mit Behinderung lernen können“ ist im Juni 2021 im FinanzBuch Verlag erschienen und ist auch als Hörbuch verfügbar. Wenn euch diese Episode gefallen hat, empfehlt uns bitte weiter. Und vergesst bitte nicht, unseren Kanal zu abonnieren. Wir freuen uns auch über eine gute Bewertung.  Diese Interview wurde am 21. Juni 2023 im Ö1 Inklusionspodcast ausgestrahlt.

Welcome back to the 135th episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. With the theatres on a come back we offer a mix of both reviews of live shows we've seen and continued reviews of prophet productions! For our 135th episode we bring you a duet review of Perceptual Archaeology (Or, How to Travel Blind), written and performed by Alex Bulmer, directed by Leah Cherniak, presented by Crow's Theatre and the Fire and Rescue Team. Join Mackenzie Horner and Alicia Plummer, as they discuss their own travel experiences, the incredible life of blind explorer James Holman, and how one can and should approach travel in different ways. Perceptual Archaeology is playing at the Streetcar Crowsnest (345 Carlaw Ave., Toronto, ON) until June 25th, 2023. Tickets can be purchased from the following link: https://www.crowstheatre.com/whats-on/view-all/perceptualarchaeology CONTENT WARNING: Perceptual Archaeology touches on the themes of ableism and depression; this review, likewise, speaks directly to these topics. Viewer discretion is advised. Less importantly, this review contains many SPOILERS for Perceptual Archaeology. It will begin with a general non-spoiler review until the [00:19:33] mark, followed by a more in-depth/anything goes/spoiler-rich discussion. If you intend to see the production, we recommend you stop watching after that point, or at least proceed at your own risk. Follow our panelists:  Mackenzie Horner (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: BeforetheDownbeat  Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeN  Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAu Alicia Plummer – Instagram: @itsaliciaplummer // TikTok: hialiciabyealicia Follow Cup of Hemlock Theatre on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: @cohtheatre If you'd like us to review your upcoming show in Toronto, please send press invites/inquiries to coh.theatre.MM@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cup-of-hemlock-theatre/support

Tämä on Näkövammaisten Airut -lehden Seitsemän supervoimaa -podcast-sarjan neljäs osa. Näkövamma hidastaa joitain asioita ja estää toisten tekemisen kokonaan. Mutta oletko ajatellut, mitä vahvuuksia näkövammaisena eläminen kehittää? Tässä podcastissa kuulet ihmisten kokemuksia siitä, miten nämä vahvuudet ovat näkyneet heidän elämässään. Tutustut myös historiallisiin esikuviin, jotka ovat omistaneet elämänsä näille sisäisille supervoimille. Neljännen osan kuvitteellisessa tarinassa onnettomuudessa sokeutunut Ellen on uskaltautunut opettelemaan reitin uuteen työpaikkaan ja matkustaa nyt yksin bussilla töihin. Tai yrittää matkustaa. Ellen löytää itsensä vieraalta bussipysäkiltä keskeltä liikenteen melua ja tietyömaan ahdistavia ääniä. Nousevaa paniikkia saapuu rauhoittamaan Sokea matkaaja, James Holman. Ellenin tarinassa esiintyivät: Ellen: Mira-Maria Kuudanpaiste Bussikuski: Markus Tihumäki Mielen nakertajat: Marianne Tenhami ja Riikka Hänninen James Holman: Joose Ojala Tunnusmusiikki: Andre Louis Muu musiikki: Stephane Pigeon/Mynoise.net Käsikirjoitus, ohjaus ja tuotanto: Riikka Hänninen

Kruser talks to James Holman from the Washington Post about the firing of a DA in San Francisco.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kruser talks to James Holman from the Washington Post and Bill Meck in hour 2.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oliver is joined by Maud Rowell, blind freelance journalist and author of Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness, to discuss Infrastructure for the Blind. Maud's upcoming James Holman prize-winning project, ‘Where Birds Won't Go', will see her independently travel to the most remote regions of Japan and write a book on her experiences, all the while demonstrating that accessible public infrastructure can benefit us all. She also lays out how informed attitudes towards blind people go a long way to supporting independence. Read Maud's book, Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness. Watch Dr Mona Minkara's Planes, Trains and Canes travel series. Download the full transcript here (PDF) Watch with subtitles on YouTube IMAGE AND AUDIO CREDITS Intro-outro music: jasonszklarek / MotionElements.com [L] Cover art for Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell. [R] White Cane on Curb Cut with Shadow by cheapsurrealist is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Copyright © 2022 Oliver Moxham, ℗ 2022 Oliver Moxham. May be freely distributed for education purposes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beyond-japan/message

Do you as a blind or partially sighted person have a project idea or an ambition to do something that will shatter other people's misconceptions about blindness? Well, don't miss your opportunity to get your ideas in for the 2022 Holman Prize for Blind Ambition which has just opened with the deadline for applications on Sunday 20 March 2022.  Now in it's sixth year in 2022, the Holman Prize for Blind Ambition annually awards three blind people from anywhere in the world, up to $25,000 (USD) each to carry out an incredible idea that will shatter misconceptions about blindness.  The Holman Prize is named after James Holman, a 19th century blind explorer who was the most prolific private traveler before the age of modern transportation, blind or sighted. RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey was joined all the way from San   Francisco by Lee Kumutat, Vice President of Communications, LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco to find out more about the 2022 Holman Prize for Blind Ambition.  Lee began by giving Toby a bit of background about James Holman and how the Holman Prize for Blind Ambition came about.   Lee also told Toby about some of the past Holman Prize for Blind Ambition winners to share some of the projects that the prize has awarded in the past to blind and partially sighted people along with how the Prize has helped to smash misconceptions around blindness. The deadline to get your applications in for the 2022 Holman Prize for Blind Ambition is Sunday 20 March 2022 and more information about the prize can be found by visiting the Holman Prize website - https://holman.lighthouse-sf.org (Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)

We met old friend Emily Trepanier, now aka Starfish, as children, at a camp for the blind in Ontario. Kerry met Maxwell Ivey, now known as The Blind Blogger, online, through a LinkedIn community for writers and bloggers in 2014 and this is his full premier on our show. And how did this fellow Ontario friend/now a BC newcomer and a Texan/prior carnival worker and amusement park ride broker connect in the first place? They met, both participating in something along the lines of Shark Tank or Dragon's Den for blind entrepreneurs and dreamers of all kinds. Despite both making it to the semi final round of the Holman Prize competition, they both did not win the ultimate prize. And yet, they may just have found something to be just as beneficial for them both. On this week's episode, we speak with Emily and Max about how they connected and why, more on the What's Your Excuse network and what the hope is with that, and Emily shares more on her new podcast on the network, Shredding For Gold, a show about her journey to compete in the Winter Paralympics as a visually impaired snowboarder. Max has always loved a challenge and some of the things he hopes to do with the WYExcuse network are, for hosts, to give a purpose, to teach marketable employment skills (people with disabilities have barriers to this), and to have a platform or can work to create one, to turn a podcast into a business or tool for one. Emily explains more about Para snowboarding being added in 2014, while her particular classification (visually impaired) is not yet, though she is in for the fight to get it included with the International Paralympic Committee. She hints at more in the works, can't say more right now, but, nonetheless, , swears that exciting things are happening in the sport. Max is already the host of the What's Your Excuse Show and now, Emily is the brand new host of what she's named Shredding For Gold, a podcast on her life and goals and activities while training as a snowboarder. As well, with this show she hopes to highlight the work of others in the adaptive sports arena, along with coaches and trainers from across Canada and internationally and to highlight her sport and its inclusion in the Paralympic Games by featuring the hard work of others, both athletes and supporters, with the ultimate goal of creating more awareness of adaptive sports and her love of snowboarding. So thanks to a blind traveler, adventurer, and dreamer from the distant past, James Holman (1786-1857), the teaming up of Maxwell and Emily is paying off for them both in the 21st century. She may be a Canadian who is not so smooth on skates, but she's a pro, at this point, on skis and her board. Along with Max's help, it's all downhill for Emily now. And that's a good thing. You can find the What's Your Excuse Network and links to both Emily's Shredding For Gold podcast and Max's What's Your Excuse? Show here: https://wyexcuse.com/shows/ (also available on Apple and other podcast platforms) Check out Emily's former appearance on Outlook from back in September of 2019: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/outlook-2019-09-02-team-starfish-feat-future-paralympian/id1527876739?i=1000488226516 And to learn more on who James Holman was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holman

What is crypto we hear so much about it but if asked what is it could you answer it correctly? Crypto could be the new form of currency or a new way to work around the government and them not getting a piece or even a way to accomplish and become successful by selling or buying to bring a income in to sustain yourself. Past guest James might not call himself an expert but has been using this form of trading for awhile now and I had some questions for some better insight on this mysterious new form of money.

En esta edición de Cuento Contigo, comenzamos con una breve reseña de quién fue en su tiempo toda una aventurera y rompedora de clichés machistas. Lucy Evelyn Cheesman, trabajó para la inteligencia británica en la Gran Guerra fue veterinaria, botánica , antropóloga, entomóloga y aventurera, oficios y aficiones reservados a los hombres en el mundo de el primer cuarto del S. XX. El viajero infatigable Mc Bauman te lleva a la odisea que vivió en el camino a Cabo Norte en pleno mes de Octubre. Las previsiones eran poco amables con él, pero no se desanimó y decidió por lo menos intentarlo. James Holman recorrió 280.000 km a lo largo del mundo, la misma distancia que hay de la tierra a la luna. No puede parecer una hazaña loable aún cuando hablo de mediados del siglo XIX, pero resulta que nuestro protagonista era invidente. Nada lo detuvo en su aventura que lo llevaría a lugares lejanos y exóticos. Finalmente Julio Verne te trae una aventura que tiene que ver con el anterior viajero, porque te contaba que él recorrió la distancia que hay entre nuestro planeta y el satélite que lo acompaña. Pues la misma distancia, pero viajando a bordo de una bala de cañón acondicionada es lo que te cuenta en su novela “De la Tierra a la Luna”. Dos capítulos donde te explica la composición del proyectil y la expectación que levanta el lanzamiento. Aprovecha el momento, ponte en modo escucha y disfruta del podcast. Música: Starman cover: David Bowie 1979 cover: Smashing Pumpkins Insurrección cover: El último de la fila Across the Universe cover: The Beatles Rocket Man cover: Elton John

James is a Business Owner, Entrepreneur/Laptopreneur excelling in the world of remote work. He has been advising or consulting individuals and small businesses since 2006 where he shares his passion of Investing/Trading stock, options, currencies, and now crypto currencies. James is also a psychedelic advocate and amateur mycologist in which he believes that psychedelics and mushrooms can change the way we live our lives and how we run our businesses.

When a mysterious illness blinded him at age 25, British naval officer James Holman took up a new pursuit: travel. For the next 40 years he roamed the world alone, describing his adventures in a series of popular books. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast, we'll describe Holman's remarkable career and his unique perspective on his experiences. We'll also remember some separating trains and puzzle over an oddly drawn battle plan. Intro: David Tennant's 2008 turn as Hamlet enlisted the skull of composer André Tchaikowsky. For J.B.S. Haldane's 60th birthday, biologist John Maynard Smith composed an ode to Struthiomimus. Sources for our feature on James Holman: Jason Roberts, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler, 2009. James Holman, The Narrative of a Journey Through France, etc., 1822. James Holman, Travels Through Russia, Siberia, etc., 1825. James Holman, A Voyage Round the World, 1834. Sarah Bell, "Sensing Nature: Unravelling Metanarratives of Nature and Blindness," in Sarah Atkinson and Rachel Hunt, eds., GeoHumanities and Health, 2020. Eitan Bar-Yosef, "The 'Deaf Traveller,' the 'Blind Traveller,' and Constructions of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing," Victorian Review 35:2 (Fall 2009), 133-154. Pieter François, "If It's 1815, This Must Be Belgium: The Origins of the Modern Travel Guide," Book History 15 (2012), 71-92. Joseph Godlewski, "Zones of Entanglement: Nigeria's Real and Imagined Compounds," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 28:2 (Spring 2017), 21-33. Rebe Taylor, "The Polemics of Eating Fish in Tasmania: The Historical Evidence Revisited," Aboriginal History 31 (2007), 1-26. Mark Paterson, "'Looking on Darkness, Which the Blind Do See': Blindness, Empathy, and Feeling Seeing," Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal 46:3 (September 2013), 159-177. Keith Nicklin, "A Calabar Chief," Journal of Museum Ethnography 1 (March 1989), 79-84. Robert S. Fogarty, "Rank the Authors," Antioch Review 65:2 (Spring 2007), 213. Daniel Kish, "Human Echolocation: How to 'See' Like a Bat," New Scientist 202:2703 (April 11, 2009), 31-33. Robert Walch, "As He Alone 'Sees' It," America 195:17 (Nov. 27, 2006), 25-26. Anne McIlroy, "James Holman," CanWest News, Dec. 16, 1992, 1. Chris Barsanti, "The Blind Traveler," Publishers Weekly 243:18 (May 1, 2006), 46. Elizabeth Baigent, "Holman, James (1786–1857), traveller," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sept. 23, 2004. My Futility Closet post on echolocator Ben Underwood. Listener mail: "The History of the Slip Coach," Ruairidh MacVeigh, June 27, 2020. "By Slip Coach to Bicester," video of the last slip coach in operation. Wikipedia, "Slip Coach" (accessed Nov. 25, 2020). "Slip Coaches," Railway Wonders of the World, June 21, 1935. "2 Bedroom Restored Slip Coach in Saltash, St Germans, Cornwall, England," One Off Places (accessed Dec. 3, 2020). From listener Aleksandar Ćirković: The 19:38 train departing the main station at Nuremberg each day splits in four. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Marie Nearing, who sent this corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

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Cette semaine à Accès Libre: On fait le tour des causes et conséquences du syndrome d’alcoolisme fœtal. Expérience 303, un appartement modèle de Société logique pour promouvoir le design universel. James Holman, et Jacques Étienne Victor Arago explorateurs aveugles du XIX siècle. Lili-Anne Tremblay, conseillère d’arrondissement du district de Saint-Léonard-Est, élue et proche aidante. Animatrice,… Cet article Accès libre, 28 septembre 2020 est apparu en premier sur Canal M, la radio de Vues et Voix.

Close your eyes. Picture that darkness, that starless night. If that was all you could see, no color, no shades, no shape or light, nothing at all but blackness, would you still have the courage to explore the world? This week’s guest, Christopher Venter, aka The Blind Scooter Guy, did and does, and he’s going to take us on a journey sightless from Sicily to Southern France and show us the world as he experiences it with his other four senses. And guess what? It may just change the way that you see the world too. Christopher had always dreamed of being an explorer. He traveled the world, he went on many adventures. But then, suddenly, in the midst of an epic 18,000-mile Vespa scooter expedition across Africa and Europe something happened that changed his life forever. His sight began to dim. Within 24hrs his world had turned black. Doctors diagnosed a rare virus growing on his retinas. They managed to save his life, but not his sight. At 40 years old, he was told that he was blind and he would never see again. He thought his life was over. He came close to ending it all. But then he heard about a man called James Holman and against the odds he began to hope again.Holman is, perhaps, the world’s most remarkable explorer. Born in 1786, he lost his sight at the age of 25. But instead of giving up on his dreams, he doubled down on them. With very little money, and no assistance, Holman set off to see the world. He sailed around the globe, he fought the slave trade in Africa (a river in the Congo is named after him), he mapped uncharted parts of Australia, he survived captivity in Siberia and rogue elephants in Sri Lanka. And through it all, he became something of a celebrity of his day, a symbol of raw determination and the capacity of the human spirit for adventure. If Holman could do it, why couldn’t he?Highlights include:Find out what it’s like to experience the world as a blind travelerHear the amazing story of James Holman’s life, one of the most remarkable explorers in history, but still largely unknown to most peopleExplore Sicily, Tuscany, and the Amalfi CoastDiscover Nice, Provence and the PyreneesBe inspired by Christopher’s courage and determination to make his dreams come true, despite such sudden and devastating set backs Learn to appreciate the world in a deeper way. Christopher paints images in his mind by slowing down, being present and using his other four senses. Find out how you can do the same and see the world in a new wayListen to how Christopher’s story can inspire you to overcome your own challenges too, whatever they may beWho's the Guest?Christopher Venter, aka the Blind Scooter Guy, is a blind adventurer, explorer, writer, speaker and storyteller. He has two books: How I Became The Blind Scooter Guy: My soul searching safari by scooter from the Southern Tip of Africa to the Shamrock fields of IrelandSightless From Sicily to Southern France: A blind man's journey by any means - from Ocean and Air to Road and Rail, experienced through the remaining four senses@BlindScooterGuyhttps://www.facebook.com/BlindScooterGuyhttps://blindscooterguy.wordpress.comThe Armchair Explorer: the world's greatest adventurers tell their best story from the road. Each episode is cut documentary style with music and cinematic effects to create an immersive storytelling experience. http://www.armchair-explorer.comHost/Producer Aaron Millar is an award-winning travel writer (Nat Geo, The Times etc.) Instagram/Twitter @AaronMWriter / Facebook: @armchairexplorerpodcast.

In this episode, we examine at an increase in Charles Bonnet Syndrome symptoms for some people who are social-distancing, and the way we might be able to reduce that increase. An interview with last year’s winner of the James Holman prize for blind ambition. A way to prevent hurting your back if you’re blind in one eye. A cell phone accessory that takes the stress out of traveling, and tips on how to keep your guide dog, and pet dogs in tip-top shape while social-distancing. For a transcript of this episode, click the link below: TACTILE TRAVELER 6 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mN1rXTwAcdobNCZtS-aqBEa6Iqsr0wlBP-D4Jb-jTBU/edit?usp=sharing

ScareTrack - The Pandora Network / James Holman & Rosalie Woodward Interview April 2020 Mikey interviews James and Rosalie from the brand new immersive online productions THE PANDORA NETWORK, produced by Faceless Ventures, Nick Hutson Music and Incognito Experience. This online experience lasts 7 days and is full of entertainment and interaction. Their first show is SOLD OUT, but be quick to get tickets for their second show starting MAY 16th   Follow Faceless Ventures  Insta: @faceless_ventures FB: /facelessventures Twitter: @facelessventure ........................................................................................................................... BUY THE PANDORA NETWORK TICKETS HERE: http://pandoranetwork.online/ .............................................................................................................................   Visit our website here: https://scaretrack.co.uk Watch our latest ScareCam vlogs: https://youtube.com/scaretrack You can support the show here: https://patreon.com/ScareTrack ScareTrack merchandise can be found here: https://smart-fx.co.uk/smart-artists/...   Social Media Facebook.com/ScareTrack Instagram- @scaretrack Twitter- @scaretrack Snapchat- scaretrack   *Logo/Photo property of Faceless Ventures.  *All views expressed are of the individual host/guest.

James Holman was a world renowned blind traveller that unexpectedly faded into obscurity after his death in 1857.  Writer Jason Roberts, author of ‘A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler’, spoke with us about the blind adventurer and his amazing expeditions. Jason spoke with RNIB Connect Radio’s Simon Pauley.  For more information about the book visit: [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sense-World-Historys-Greatest-Traveler/dp/0007161263](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sense-World-Historys-Greatest-Traveler/dp/0007161263)

He was known simply as the Blind Traveler. A solitary, sightless adventurer, James Holman (1786-1857) fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, helped chart the Australian outback—and circumnavigated the globe, becoming one of the greatest wonders of the world he so explored.Today I'm talking with Jason Roberts, author of one of my all-time favorite history books: A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler. We get into all the impossible-to-believe stories that come from Holman's life, including:-- Holman retraining his senses to use echolocation to “see” the world around him through sight and touch- -Summiting Mt. Vesuvius as it was on the brink of eruption-- Riding horses at full gallop-- Negotiating peace between the British navy and islanders in Equatorial Guinea

This week its Lorna’s turn to report, and she focuses on James Holman, who at the time of his death was arguably the most travelled man in the world. He zig zagged across the globe, all this despite the fact that he went blind early in his life. James Holman also went on to write travel books, and as a result we attempt to shorten the name of his first novel (it was such a long one!). A seamless edit in the middle of the episode hides a McDonald’s trip and some car issues. And finally, in Lorna’s movie corner we discuss James Holman the New Zealand director. Twitter: @IdiotHistoryPod Email: IdiotHistoryPod@gmail.com Individual Twitters: @MattSingleton17  @lornabarryy  

In the early 1800s there was no English explorer greater than James Holman. He covered a distance almost twenty times farther than Marco Polo on foot or cart—almost never using trains or steamships. He travelled among 200 different cultures, charted undiscovered parts of Australia, and by October 1846 had visited every inhabited continent. He did all this despite being completely blind. How did Holman travel the world when any sort of international exploration was exceptionally dangerous? Learn how in this episode.   TO HELP OUT THE SHOW Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher

This week on StoryWeb: James Holman’s book The Narrative of a Journey. For Jim, in honor of his birthday In 2007, my husband, Jim, and I heard about Jason Roberts’s book, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler. It sounded fascinating: a biography of a British naval officer who completely lost his sight at age 25 and then proceeded to travel around the world – and in the most exotic and, often, dangerous places. Born in 1786, James Holman rose to the rank of lieutenant in the British Royal Navy. When he fell ill and lost his sight in 1825, he was forced to give up his career as a naval officer. But in his time with the navy, he had been bitten by the travel bug – and travel became his life’s quest ever after. In 1832, he became the first blind person to circumnavigate the globe. Our favorite expedition found Holman at the edge of the world’s most famous live volcano – Mount Vesuvius. As I read Roberts’s biography aloud (a way we sometimes share books), I could barely make it through this scene – it was that hair-raising! I could not imagine myself – a sighted person – going to the very precipice of a live volcano, yet here was 19th-century blind James Holman pushing the envelope about as far as anyone could. Holman was a sensation in his time, and deservedly so. As one source says, “In a time when blind people were thought to be almost totally helpless, and usually given a bowl to beg with, Holman's ability to sense his surroundings by the reverberations of a tapped cane or horse's hoof-beats was unfathomable.” Roberts’s biography of Holman is a great way into the story of this extraordinary man’s life – and if you want a peak into the book, visit Roberts’s website. You can also listen to NPR’s story on A Sense of the World. If you’re hungry for more, you might want to check out Holman’s books. The Narrative of a Journey is available on Google Books, and the first volume of A Voyage Round the World is available at Project Gutenberg. Unfortunately, Holman’s life came to a sad end. Pensioned as a member of the Naval Knights of Windsor, he was required to live at Windsor Castle. Sounds grand, I know, but the reality was far different from what you might suppose. The accommodations were meager at best, and Holman – who longed to travel – chafed at the requirement that he live at Windsor Castle and attend religious services twice a day. He frequently applied for leaves of absence from his Windsor Castle duties and was granted such leaves from time to time, but not nearly as often as he desired. This active, still vital man hated to be confined to one place. Jason Roberts, Holman’s biographer, sums up his legacy this way: He was known simply as the Blind Traveler – a solitary, sightless adventurer who fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the Australian outback. Once a celebrity, a bestselling author and inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the charismatic, witty James Holman outlived his fame, dying in . . . obscurity [in 1857]. . . . Jim and I are thrilled that Roberts has worked so hard to resurrect interest in Holman’s extraordinary life. Whether you read The Narrative of a Journey, A Voyage Round the World, or A Sense of the World, you’ll be inspired by all that is possible for human beings who dare to tackle the impossible! Visit thestoryweb.com/holman for links to all these resources. Listen now as I read an excerpt from James Holman’s 1822 book, The Narrative of a Journey. In this scene, Holman tells of going to the very edge of Mount Vesuvius.   We proceeded along a fair road, until we arrived at a house about half way to the hermitage, where we rested a short time, and refreshed ourselves with wine and water; after this the road gradually became worse, so that if I had not, on former occasions, witnessed the astonishing powers of asses and mules, I should have conceived it impossible for them to have advanced along it. We reached the hermitage about half after eight o’clock, and at the suggestion of our guide, recruited ourselves with some of the hermit’s bread and wine; and then began the more arduous part of our journey. The road soon became very soft, being constituted of the light dust which had been thrown out from the crater; interspersed, however, with large and sharp stones, ejected from the same source; some of which were of such immense size, that did we not bear in mind the astonishing powers of elementary fire, we could scarcely credit the possibility of such masses being hurled to this distance, from out of the bowels of the mountain. One of the greatest inconveniences I found in this ascent, was from the particles of ashes insinuating themselves within my shoes, and which annoyed my feet so much, that I was repeatedly compelled to take them off, in order to get rid of the irritating matter. Hence I would recommend future travellers to ascend in white leathern boots. At length we reached the only part of the mountain, which was at this time in a burning state, and which was throwing out flames and sulphurous vapour; when the guide taking me by the arm, conducted me over a place where the fire and smoke issued from apertures between the stones we walked upon, and which we could hear crackling under our feet every instant as if they were going to be separated, and to precipitate us into the bowels of the mountain. The sublime description of Virgil did not fail to occur to my recollection. By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames lick the sky; Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And shiver d from their force come piecemeal down. Oft liquid fires of burning sulphur glow, Nurs’d by the fiery spring that burns below. My imagination, I admit, was actively alive to the possible accidents which might have occurred; I followed, however, with all the confidence which my conviction of being under the care of a cautious leader, did not fail to inspire. My guide appeared highly gratified with the incident, asserting that it was the first time one deprived of sight had ever ventured there; and adding, that he was sure it would much surprise the king, when the circumstance became known to him, in the report which is daily made of the persons who visit the mountain The ground was too hot under our feet, and the sulphurous vapour too strong to allow of our remaining long in this situation; and when he thought he had given us a sufficient idea of the nature of this part of the mountain, we retired to a more solid and a cooler footing; previous to which, however, he directed my walking-cane towards the flames, which shrivelled the ferrule, and charred the lower part; – this I still retain as a memorial. From hence we were conducted to the edge of a small crater, now extinguished, from whence about two months before, the Frenchman, desirous of the glory of dying a death worthy of the great nation, plunged into the fiery abyss. The guide placed my hand on the very spot where he was stated to have last stood, before he thus rashly entered upon eternity. I was anxious to have proceeded up the cone to the border of the superior and large crater, but our guide objected, indeed refused to conduct us to it, unless we awaited the dawn of morning; the moon, he said, was fast descending, so that we should be involved in darkness before we could attain it; and that consequently it would be attended with risk in the extreme to make the attempt. This was a check to the completion of my anxious wishes, but our arrangements at Naples neither made it convenient to my friend, or myself, to remain until morning; nor would it have been pleasant to have spent some hours here without refreshment, more particularly as I had left my coat behind near the hermitage, and at this elevation we found it extremely cold. After spending a short time in examining some of the immense masses of calcined rock, many of them forming solid cubes of twenty feet diameter, and which had been at different times thrown out by the volcanic power; we began to retrace our steps towards the hermitage, distant, as our guide informed us, four miles, but which must have been an over-rated estimate. As we approached this latter place, we met a party ascending the mountain, with an intention of waiting the break of day, so as to enable them to reach the very summit.