The World at His Fingertips

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who created the dot system of reading and writing that is now used by the blind throughout the world.

First sentence: Louis Braille sat in the doorway of his father's harness shop and watched his sisters, Catherine-Josephine and Marie-Celine, come out of the stone farmhouse.

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

First Avenue Editions

Editions

3

Pages

64

ISBN

9781575054612

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