topics: |  psychology | history | sign-language

combines the story of a wild boy, "l'enfant sauvage de l'Aveyron", with the
historic context, growth of deaf-mute education, and the techniques of Itard,
the wild boys teacher, into an enthralling and captivating novel. Narration
as well as primary sources are used alternately to tell the story. The book
has a philosophical twist ; many prominent philosophers are qouted and the
difference between man and animal is discussed.

[see Oliver Sacks' Seeing Voices ]