This book is intended for individuals or organizations (teachers, social workers, psychologists, community nurses, parents and carers) who wish to create leisure opportunities for people with profound and multiple impairments. The text reflects a number of leisure activities based on the authors' experience, from gardening to aromatherapy, drama to microtechnology. It also offers guidance for running and developing workshops for parents, carers and professionals. Useful addresses, contacts and resources are included.

James Hogg was an 18th century Scottish poet who wrote this memoir near the end of his life.

This edition has been reviewed and lightly edited to simplify some aspects of the original novel's sentence structures to make the narrative more appealing to a modern reader, while retaining the greater part of the original writing. 'As I went my way, I beheld a young man of a mysterious appearance coming towards me. I tried to shun him, being bent on my own contemplations; but he cast himself in my way, so that I could not avoid him. But more than that I felt a sort of invisible power that drew me towards him. It felt like the force of an enchantment, which I could not resist. As we...