Second Suns
$12.99
By the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of THREE CUPS OF TEA
Second Suns shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted surgeons who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit grew up in a remote Nepalese village, where he became intimately acquainted with the human costs of inadequate access to health care. Together they found their life's calling: tending to the afflicted people of the Himalayas, a vast mountainous region with an alarmingly high incidence of cataract blindness.
From impoverished plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing to state-of-the-art surgical centres at major American universities, these two driven men are restoring sight - and hope - to patients from around the world. With their revolutionary, inexpensive style of surgery, Tabin and Ruit have been able to cure tens of thousands: from old men who cannot walk the treacherous mountain trails unaided to cataract-stricken children who have not seen their mothers' faces for years.
Second Suns is the moving, unforgettable story of how two men with a shared dream are changing the world, one pair of eyes at a time.
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