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

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" 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herrmann, Doris, 1933-
Other Authors: Gaida, Michael
Jöhl, Theres, 1957-
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Kangaroos > Behavior.
Kangaroos > Australia.
Herrmann, Doris, > 1933-
Human-animal relationships.
Deaf authors > Switzerland > Biography.
Deaf women > Switzerland > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Kangaroos as Yet Undiscovered
  • School Years
  • Under the Spell of the Kangaroo
  • Thwarted Courtship
  • Dora
  • A Firm Decision
  • In the Land of My Dreams at Last
  • Pebbly Beach
  • Jacqueline
  • Moving like a Kangaroo
  • A Community of Individuals
  • The Bosses
  • Manuela
  • Of Mothers and Children
  • It's Certainly Not Deathly Quiet!
  • All Kinds of Remarkable Things
  • Dreams
  • Kangaroos Overcome the Iron Curtain
  • My Brother and Me
  • Aboriginals
  • Eukala
  • The All-embracing Unity.