Touching the rock : an experience of blindness

"The journal of a professor of religious education who became totally blind in his mid-40's. He describes his three-year struggle to accept the changes in his life. His outlook has improved, but his philosophical and religious speculations continue."
"Jonh Hull takes us into 3 years of his life, beginning when he lost the last sensation of sight in 1983. This is his story of coming to terms with blindness and his attempt to build a shattered career."@en
"In 1983, John Hull was forced to acknowledge that the dark, disc shaped areas that had been gathering in his eyes for ten years had finally over-whelmed his field of vision."
"John Hull, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Birmingham, writes a touching account of three years of his life, beginning in 1983 when the last of his sight left him."@en
"A memoir of what it is like to go blind, and to be blind."@en