A Singular View: The Art of Seeing With One Eye (Paperback)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 131 pages
• Publisher: Frank B Brady; 5 Revised edition (June 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0961463929
• ISBN-13: 978-0961463922
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #424,112 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful!, March 18, 2001

By	cdkscully "cdkscully" (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews

I was born with a Cataract in 1971 which wasn't removed until I was 7 years old in an out of town hospital (due to the fact that the doctors in my area who were not educated in Cataract surgery in infants.) From birth, I did not have vision in my right eye.

I was introduced to this book by my Ocularist when I received my scleral shell for my eye in 1996. (Yes, yet another doctor in my area that had no idea what he was doing. I lost my during a procedure he performed that was unnecessary.)

This book was helpful to me in understanding how and why I do certain things with one eye. Also, it explains how to compensate for the lack of depth-perception or peripheral vision. It gives a list of famous personalities with monocular vision so don't feel so alone. These people did great things in life with only one eye, for example Theodore Roosevelt, Sandy Duncan, Peter Falk, Guglielmo Marconi, John Milton, Horatio Nelson, and Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas are just a few.

I recommend this book to anyone who knows someone or is a person with one eye. Some may have lost their eye years ago or recently. Either way, it is a help to all.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eyecare Professional Gives Book Thumbs Up, August 16, 2000

By	Jan Ledford "EyeWrite books" (Franklin, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In my 18 years in eyecare, I've never come across a better book on monocularity (having only one seeing eye). I've recommended this book to several patients, with wonderful results. My best advice to any person with only one useful eye is two-fold: always wear safety glasses, and get this book! It is full of practical advice that I've passed along to patients, even those who have two good eyes but must wear an eye patch on one for a while. This is grass-roots stuff to help you where you live...driving, dining out, even shaking hands. As an author and editor of eyecare material myself, I'm very particular and picky. But this book is a winner any way you look at it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for people that only see with one eye., September 29, 1998

By A Customer

Seeing with only one eye does not necessarily have to stop you from doing all the things that are fun. This book gives you some hints a sto what to expect when one eye does not work, and most importantly, how to compensate. You finish the book with a clear "View" that there isn't anything you cannot do even if it takes a little more work.