My Life with Kangaroos: A Deaf Woman's Remarkable Story

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My Life with Kangaroos 9781563685590_My Life with Kangaroos.indd 1 4/8/13 11:04 AM 9781563685590_My Life with Kangaroos.indd 2 4/8/13 11:04 AM My Life with Kangaroos A Deaf Woman’s Remarkable Story Doris Herrmann with Michael Gaida and Theres Jöhl Translated by Paul Foster Gallaudet University Press Washington, D.C. ZX 9781563685590_My Life with Kangaroos.indd 3 4/8/13 11:04 AM Gallaudet University Press Washington, DC 20002 http://gupress.gallaudet.edu© 2013 by Gallaudet University All rights reserved. Published 2013 The illustrations and photographs have been kindly supplied from the private collections of Doris Herrmann and Ursi Weiss. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Herrmann, Doris, 1933My life with kangaroos: a deaf woman’s remarkable story / Doris Herrmann; with Michael Gaida and Theres Jöhl; translated by Paul Foster. p. cm. Translated and revised edition of: Känguruherz. Berlin : Pro Business GmbH, 2009. ISBN 978-1-56368-559-0 (paperback: alkaline paper)—ISBN 978-1-56368-560-6 (e-book) 1. Kangaroos—Behavior. 2. Kangaroos—Australia. 3. Herrmann, Doris, 19334 . Human-animal relationships. 5. Deaf authors—Switzerland—Biography. 6. Deaf women—Switzerland—Biography. I. Gaida, Michael. II. Jöhl, Theres, 1957III . Herrmann, Doris, 1933- Känguruherz. IV. Title. QL737.M35H47 2013 599.2’22—dc23 2012047495 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. 9781563685590_My Life with Kangaroos.indd 4 4/8/13 11:04 AM To the memory of my parents, Trudel and Siegbert, and also to Rosa Hunziker, my “Auntie,” and to my brother, Peter 9781563685590_My Life with Kangaroos.indd 5 4/8/13 11:04 AM 9781563685590_My Life with Kangaroos.indd 6 4/8/13 11:04 AM ...