Triumph Over Darkness: The Life of Louis Braille

by Lennard Bickel

First published in 1988, Triumph over Darkness is a stirring story of determination and tenacity in the face of adversity. Born in France in 1809, Louis Braille was the 4th child of a village saddler. At the age of three he stabbed himself in the eye with a pointed tool taken from his father's work bench. Some 13 years later he again took a sharp tool from the same bench and used it to create a code of raised dots punched through sheets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032987049
• ISBN13: 9781032987040
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages