Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Country of the Blind
    The Country of the Blind
    The Country of the Blind
    Audiobook1 hour

    The Country of the Blind

    Written by H. G. Wells

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

    4/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

    'The Country of the Blind' is the strange story of a mountain guide who accidently falls off a cliff ledge in the Andes. He survives the fall unhurt, and finds himself in a remote valley where a tribe lives completely cut off from the rest of the world.

    A hereditary illness has meant that for 15 generations all the members of the tribe have been born blind. As a result, they now have a highly evolved sense of hearing, scent and touch. 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,' thinks the mountaineer. But he finds that the gift of sight is far less useful or appreciated that he had expected in the country of the blind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781509421183
    Author

    H. G. Wells

    H. G. Wells (1866-1946) is best remembered for his science fiction novels, which are considered classics of the genre, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was born in Bromley, Kent, and worked as a teacher, before studying biology under Thomas Huxley in London.

    More audiobooks from H. G. Wells

    Related to The Country of the Blind

    Related audiobooks

    Classics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Seven Books I’ll Never Read

      Aug 7, 2018

      Seven Books I’ll Never Read
      6 min read

    • Article

      'The White Darkness' Tells The Stunning Story Of A Solo Trek Across Antarctica

      Oct 1, 2018

      This fascinating account of a real-life expedition raises questions of purpose and motivation.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Orwell’s ISLAND

      Jul 17, 2020

      Orwell’s ISLAND
      5 min read

    • Article

      Moral Compass

      Apr 2, 2023

      Moral Compass
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Special Relationship

      Mar 20, 2024

      A Special Relationship
      5 min read

    • Article

      Lives Well Lived

      Feb 16, 2023

      Ancestors are seldom as interesting as their descendants would have us believe. But Kishanda Fulford, best known for her appearances on the television series The F***ing Fulfords, has unearthed a corker. Louisa Colleton, who was brought up at the Ful

      2 min read

    • Article

      Lives Well Lived

      Feb 16, 2023

      Ancestors are seldom as interesting as their descendants would have us believe. But Kishanda Fulford, best known for her appearances on the television series The F***ing Fulfords, has unearthed a corker. Louisa Colleton, who was brought up at the Ful

      2 min read

    • Article

      Orwell’s Last Neighborhood

      Mar 4, 2019

      Orwell’s Last Neighborhood
      21 min read

    • Article

      A Life Indecently Full Of Fun And Games

      Nov 25, 2021

      ANNE GLENCONNER CALLS Oh What a Lovely Century, “a wonderful journey through twentieth century history”. It is not a journey you will find in most accounts of the period, but the young, moustachioed, army officer on the cover of this book seems to ha

      3 min read

    • Article

      Lazy Days

      Jul 28, 2022

      Lazy Days
      4 min read

    • Article

      Last Chance For A Summer Fling: The 10 Best Books Of August 2020

      Aug 24, 2020

      An impressive stable of imaginative fiction, insightful memoir, and illuminating history rounds out our list of best new books for August 2020.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Anniversaries

      Sep 29, 2022

      Anniversaries
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Weird World Of Charles Waterton

      Sep 10, 2020

      Towards the end of his life, and, indeed, throughout most of it, Charles Waterton (1782–1865) was a terrifically strange man. Eschewing the high society that he was born into in favour of the company of birds and beasts, he was more often found dangl

      14 min read

    • Article

      Call Of The Wild

      Jan 31, 2024

      Call Of The Wild
      4 min read

    • Article

      Behind The Garden Wall

      Apr 2, 2020

      Behind The Garden Wall
      5 min read

    • Article

      Three Hundred Not Out

      Jul 15, 2020

      Three Hundred Not Out
      5 min read

    • Article

      Great Sporting Lives

      Jul 7, 2021

      Big-game hunter, adventurer, soldier, explorer — Frederick Courteney Selous was a man of many parts. He was also an ardent colonialist and a friend of Cecil Rhodes, so it’s best not to judge his life by modern standards, but to appreciate him for wha

      2 min read

    • Article

      Breastfeeding Beats Chestfeeding

      Nov 16, 2022

      I sat across the table from the late April Ashley at a pre-pandemic Oldie lunch and thought her amazing. She was a beautiful old lady - she died in 2021 - as she once had been a beautiful young man. She made history as one of the first openly transge

      3 min read

    • Article

      Phoney Blair

      May 3, 2023

      Orwell: The New Life By DJ Taylor Constable £30 Why – how – does Orwell matter? It is because of Animal Farm. Like so many decent people, Orwell espoused the aspirations of the Left during the dark years of the European dictatorships. Being honest as

      3 min read

    • Article

      Happy Holiday Reading

      Dec 25, 2020

      Former US president Barack Obama appeals to many as an example of making good on the American dream, but part of his appeal as a politician is also his use of the techniques of self-help writers and motivational speakers. This chunky memoir (about 75

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Country of the Blind

    4/5

    17 ratings4 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      The readers tone was strange and the story strange. H.G. Wells is incredible and one of my favorite writers but this was just okay.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      The story itself is great, but the narrator reads in such a grating way that if it hadn’t been so short I would’ve stopped listening. I don’t know how to explain it, but if you listen to the first 30 seconds and hear how the narrator reads, the entire thing is like that.
    • 5/5
      Short yet powerful. Loved it, really recommend it to all!
    • 5/5
      Amazing short story highly recommend it very philosophical and thought provoking