Blind and Busy: Life stories of people who use braille

Author: Maxwell, Rebecca
ISBN:978-0-646-51454-3 Paperback
Extent: 234 pages
Category: Biography/Memoir.

Two hundred years ago, Louis Braille was born in France. Fifteen years later, an accessible and flexible tactile literacy was born, and eventually named Braille, to honour its inventor. There had been efforts to produce "bumpy" print letters before however it was the Louis Braille system which survived, spread and still serves the needs of blind people globally. Blind and Busy contains the stories of forty-nine people for whom braille literacy is an important lifeline. This lifeline has only been available since the mid nineteenth century - not long in comparison to the history of print literacy.

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To listen to Rebecca Maxwell being interviewed by Marj West on Vision Australia Radio's program A Morning Conversation please click here.