Come, let me guide you : a life shared with a guide dog /
Krieger, Susan,
Come, let me guide you : a life shared with a guide dog / Susan Krieger. - West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource - New directions in the human-animal bond .
Includes bibliographical references.
Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Sharing the Road; Chapter 1: An Older Guide Dog; Chapter 2: When She Was Young; Chapter 3: This Furry Companion; Chapter 4: Our Intimate Bond; Part II: Searching for Sight; Chapter 5: Framing My Pictures; Chapter 6: In Search of a Camera; Chapter 7: On Not Seeing the Ground; Part III: Weathering Life's Losses; Chapter 8: On a Distant Hillside; Chapter 9: My Mother's Bracelet; Chapter 10: Visiting Her Memory; Chapter 11: Writing My Way through It; Part IV: Seeking Connection. Chapter 12: The Art of the Intimate NarrativeChapter 13: Women and Disabilities; Chapter 14: A New Pair of Eyes; Bibliographic Notes.
Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the ten year span of their working life together. This is a book about being led by a dog to new places in the world and new places in the self, about facing life's challenges outwardly and within, and about reading those clues--those deeply felt signals--that can help guide the way. It is also, more broadly, about the importance of intimate connection in human-animal relationships, academic work, and personal life. In her previous book, Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side, Krieger focused on her first two years with Teela, her lively Golden Retriever-yellow Labrador. Come, Let Me Guide You continues the narrative, beginning at the moment the author must confront Teela's retirement and then reflecting on the entire span of their working life together. These emotionally moving stories offer the reader personal entrée into a life of increasing pleasure and insight as Krieger describes how her relationship with her guide dog has had far-reaching effects, influencing not only her abilities to navigate the world while blind, but her writing, her teaching, and her sense of self. Come, Let Me Guide You makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on human-animal communication and on the guide-dog-human experience, as well as contributing to disability and feminist studies. It shows how a relationship with a guide dog is unique among bonds, for it rests upon highly regulated connections yet touches deep emotional chords. For Krieger, those chords have resulted in these memorable stories, often humorous and playful, always instructive, and generative of broader insight.
9781612493893 9781612493909
Guide dogs--United States--Biography.
Blind--United States--Biography.
Human-animal relationships--United States.
Electronic Books.
HV1780 / .C664 2015
Come, let me guide you : a life shared with a guide dog / Susan Krieger. - West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource - New directions in the human-animal bond .
Includes bibliographical references.
Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Sharing the Road; Chapter 1: An Older Guide Dog; Chapter 2: When She Was Young; Chapter 3: This Furry Companion; Chapter 4: Our Intimate Bond; Part II: Searching for Sight; Chapter 5: Framing My Pictures; Chapter 6: In Search of a Camera; Chapter 7: On Not Seeing the Ground; Part III: Weathering Life's Losses; Chapter 8: On a Distant Hillside; Chapter 9: My Mother's Bracelet; Chapter 10: Visiting Her Memory; Chapter 11: Writing My Way through It; Part IV: Seeking Connection. Chapter 12: The Art of the Intimate NarrativeChapter 13: Women and Disabilities; Chapter 14: A New Pair of Eyes; Bibliographic Notes.
Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the ten year span of their working life together. This is a book about being led by a dog to new places in the world and new places in the self, about facing life's challenges outwardly and within, and about reading those clues--those deeply felt signals--that can help guide the way. It is also, more broadly, about the importance of intimate connection in human-animal relationships, academic work, and personal life. In her previous book, Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side, Krieger focused on her first two years with Teela, her lively Golden Retriever-yellow Labrador. Come, Let Me Guide You continues the narrative, beginning at the moment the author must confront Teela's retirement and then reflecting on the entire span of their working life together. These emotionally moving stories offer the reader personal entrée into a life of increasing pleasure and insight as Krieger describes how her relationship with her guide dog has had far-reaching effects, influencing not only her abilities to navigate the world while blind, but her writing, her teaching, and her sense of self. Come, Let Me Guide You makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on human-animal communication and on the guide-dog-human experience, as well as contributing to disability and feminist studies. It shows how a relationship with a guide dog is unique among bonds, for it rests upon highly regulated connections yet touches deep emotional chords. For Krieger, those chords have resulted in these memorable stories, often humorous and playful, always instructive, and generative of broader insight.
9781612493893 9781612493909
Guide dogs--United States--Biography.
Blind--United States--Biography.
Human-animal relationships--United States.
Electronic Books.
HV1780 / .C664 2015