How true is the saying,

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

H.G. Wells vintage episode of the Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening.

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Hop on over to the website and pick up your copy today. And now, the country of the country of the blind by H.G. Wells. 300 miles and more from Chimberazzo, 100 from the snows of Kortopoxyi in the wildest wastes of Ecuador's Andes, where the frost and sunrotted rocks rise in vast

pinnacles and cliffs above the snow.

There was once a mysterious mountain valley called the

country of the blind. It was a legendary land and until quite recently people doubted

if it was anything more than a legend.

Long years ago, ran the story, that valley lay so far open to the world that men, daring

the incessant avalanches, might clamber at last through frightful

gorges and over an icy pass into its equable meadows.

And thither indeed men went and settled, a family or so of Peruvian half-breeds

fleeing from the lust and tyranny of an evil Spanish ruler. Then came the stupendous outbreak of Mindo Bamba when it was night in Quito for 17 days and the

what was boiling at Yaguachi and all the fish floating dying even as far as Guayakil.

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