Jason Roberts is an American author of narrative nonfiction and fiction. A former journalist and technologist, Roberts' books include A Sense of the World and Every Living Thing .
18-400: Jason Roberts may refer to: Jason Roberts (author) , American writer Jason Roberts (footballer) (born 1978), Grenadian football (soccer) player Jason Roberts (guitarist) (born 1982), American guitarist Jason Roberts (indie musician) , member of indie pop band The Happy Bullets Jason Roberts, fiddler in country music group Asleep at
36-570: A somewhat different method the design which had been frustrated by the Russian authorities; and an account of his remarkable achievement was published in four volumes in 1834–1835, under the title of A Voyage Round the World , including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc. , from 1827 to 1832. His last journeys were through Spain , Portugal , Moldavia , Montenegro , Syria and Turkey . Within
54-720: A week of finishing an autobiography, Holman's Narratives of His Travels , he died in London on 29 July 1857 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery . This last work was never published, and likely has not survived. Holman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK), and of the Linnaean Society (UK). Charles Darwin , in The Voyage of the Beagle , cited Holman's writings as a source on
72-502: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jason Roberts (author) The son of photojournalist Anthony Kalani Roberts and the actress Gloria Neil , Roberts grew up in Southern California and Hawaii. He graduated from high school at the age of fourteen, then spent six years working a variety of jobs (day laborer, dishwasher, late-night disc jockey) prior to enrolling at
90-464: Is the editor of The Learn2 Guide , as well as four titles in the bestselling 642 Books series, each collections of creative materials for writers. The nonfiction book Every Living Thing is scheduled for publication in April of 2024. According to United States publisher Random House , the work is “an epic, extraordinary account of rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth,” tracing
108-581: The Rhine , Belgium and the Netherlands . On his return he published The Narrative of a Journey through France, etc. (London, 1822). He again set out in 1822 with the incredible design of making the circuit of the world from west to east, something which at the time was almost unheard of by a lone traveller, blind or not - but he travelled through Russia as far east as the Mongolian frontier of Irkutsk . There he
126-620: The University of California, Santa Cruz . Upon graduation he worked as a software engineer at Apple Computer before leaving to write a series of books on both hardware and software topics, then to serve as a technology reporter for the Village Voice . An early proponent of the Internet, in 1996 Roberts launched the Learn2 Corporation, one of the first sources for non-academic instruction on
144-426: The "Blind Traveller," was a British adventurer, author and social observer, best known for his writings on his extensive travels. Completely blind and experiencing pain and limited mobility, he undertook a series of solo journeys that were unprecedented both in their extent of geography and method of " human echolocation ". In 1866, the journalist William Jerdan wrote that "From Marco Polo to Mungo Park , no three of
162-518: The Internet. In 1999, the company began publicly trading on the NASDAQ exchange; it has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation . In 2000, shortly after Yahoo! ranked Learn2 as “One of the Ten Most Important Websites of the 20th Century”, Roberts retired from management and returned to writing, contributing to McSweeney's , The Believer , and other publications. In 2004, Roberts was
180-911: The United States by HarperCollins , and in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster . It was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award , and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award . A Sense of the World was named a "Best Book of the Year" by the Washington Post , San Francisco Chronicle , Kirkus Reviews , St. Louis Post-Dispatch , and the Rocky Mountain News . According to critic Lev Grossman of Time magazine: Roberts’ first five books were on technical topics, such as object-oriented programming . He
198-676: The Wheel Jason Roberts (weightlifter) , Australian weightlifter Jason Joseph Roberts, a Melbourne man accused of slaying two police officers in the Silk–Miller police murders in Victoria, Australia See also [ edit ] Jason Robards (1922–2000), American stage, film and television actor Jason Robards Sr. (1892–1963), American stage and screen actor Justin Roberts (born 1979), wrestling ring announcer, occasionally uses
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#1732884992429216-520: The inaugural winner of the Van Zorn Prize, awarded by Michael Chabon for the best short fiction exemplifying the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe . A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man became History's Greatest Traveler is the first biography of James Holman (1786–1857), the blind Englishman who overcame illness and adversity to become a world traveler and cultural commentator. It was published in
234-529: The most famous travellers, grouped together, would exceed the extent and variety of countries traversed by our blind countryman." In 1832, Holman became the first blind person to circumnavigate the globe. He continued travelling, and by October 1846 had visited every inhabited continent. Holman was born in Exeter , the son of an apothecary. He entered the British Royal Navy in 1798 as first-class volunteer, and
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270-506: The parallel lives and careers of the 18th-century naturalists Carl Linnaeus and George-Louis de Buffon . Roberts lives in Oakland , California, in partnership with the journalist Julia Scott . He is a board member of the Community of Writers , and a frequent member of the teaching faculty there. James Holman James Holman FRS (15 October 1786 – 29 July 1857), known as
288-406: The quietness of such a life harmonized so poorly with his active habits and keen interests, physically making him ill, that he requested multiple leaves of absence on health grounds, first to study medicine and literature at the University of Edinburgh , then to go abroad on a Grand Tour from 1819 to 1821 when he journeyed through France , Italy , Switzerland , the parts of Germany bordering on
306-760: Was appointed lieutenant in April 1807. In 1810, while on the Guerriere off the coast of the Americas, he was invalided by an illness that first affected his joints, then finally his vision. At the age of 25, he was rendered totally and permanently blind. In recognition of the fact that his condition was duty-related, he was in 1812 appointed to the Naval Knights of Windsor , with a lifetime grant of care in Windsor Castle . This position demanded he attend church service twice daily as his only duty in return for room and board, but
324-528: Was suspected by the Czar of being a spy who might publicize the extensive activities of the Russian American Company should he travel further east, and was conducted back forcibly to the frontiers of Poland . He returned home by Austria , Saxony , Prussia and Hanover , when he then published Travels through Russia, Siberia, etc. (London, 1825). Shortly afterwards he again set out to accomplish by
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