My life with kangaroos : a deaf woman's remarkable story / Doris Herrmann ; with Michael Gaida and Theres Johl ; translated by Paul Foster.

" Doris Herrmann was born deaf in 1933 in Basel, Switzerland, and from the age of three, she possessed a mystical attraction to kangaroos. She recalls seeing them at that age for the first time at the Basel Zoo, and spending every spare moment visiting them from then on. Eventually, her fascination...

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Main Author: Herrmann, Doris, 1933-
Other Authors: Gaida, Michael
Jöhl, Theres, 1957-
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, [2013]
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Physical Description:xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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