Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey

✍ Scribed by Kuusisto, Stephen

• Book ID: 109705878
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 386 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781451689792

✦ Synopsis

In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.
At the age of thirty-eight, Stephen Kuusisto--who has managed his whole life without one--gets his first guide dog, a beautiful yellow labrador named Corky. Theirs is a partnership of movement, mutual self-interest, and wanderlust. Walking with Corky in Manhattan for the first time, Steve discovers he's "living the chaos of joy--you're in love with your surroundings, loving a barefoot mind, wild to go anyplace."

Have Dog, Will Travel is the inside story of how a person establishes trust with a dog, how a guide dog is trained. Corky absolutely transforms Steve's life and his way of being in the world. Profound and deeply moving, theirs is a spiritual journey, during which Steve discovers that joy with a guide dog is both a method and a state of...