Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life
- ISBN-10
- 0716729547
- ISBN-13
- 9780716729549
- Category
- Biologists
- Pages
- 297
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Geerat J. Vermeij
Description
Explores the life and accomplishments of the Dutch-born biologist who has been blind since the age of three, tracing his education in segregated schools for the blind, to Princeton and Yale, and on to international fieldwork studying snails, clams, and ot
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