"We the blind are as indebted to Louis Braille
as mankind is to Gutenberg."
Helen Keller
In the early weeks of 1809, three baby boys were born who changed the course of history: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and Louis Braille. Unlike Lincoln and Darwin, Braille's genius is little known outside his native land, except among those who have been touched by his gift of literacy.
Louis Braille was born sighted and accidentally blinded himself at the age of three. He was fortunate to be sent to Paris to board at one of the world's first schools for blind children. There, at the age of 12, he began to work tirelessly on a revolutionary system of reading and writing by touch.
Drawing on primary sources, Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius is the first ever full-color biography to include 31 of his extant letters, some written by his own hand, and translated into English for the first time.
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