CRASHING THROUGH: A TRUE STORY OF RISK, ADVENTURE, AND THE MAN WHO DARED TO SEE
by KURSON, ROBERT
List Price: HK$ 247.00
¡@ISBN
9781400063352
¡@Subject
BIOGRAPHY
¡@Publisher
RANDOM HOUSE USA
¡@Publication
2007
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
Blinded at age 3, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man.
Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May¡¦s vision. The procedure was filled with risks. Fewer than 20 cases were known worldwide in which a person gained vision after a lifetime of blindness. Each of those people suffered desperate consequences we can scarcely imagine. There were countless reasons for May to pass on vision. He could think of only a single reason to go forward. Whatever his decision, he knew it would change his life.
Beautifully written and thrillingly told, Crashing Through is a journey of suspense, daring, romance, and insight into the mysteries of vision and the brain. Robert Kurson gives us a fascinating account of one man¡¦s choice to explore what it means to see¡Vand to truly live.
