Alexander the Great
, [contracted braille] / Published by : American Printing House for the Blind, (Louisville, Ky. :) Physical details: 1 v. of contracted braille.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Contracted Braille | W. Ross Macdonald School Library General Stacks | Non-fiction | 938.07092 GUN (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Copy: 1 Vol: 1(1) | Available | 2012-2251 |
Contracted braille.
The boy and the giant horse -- In those days Greece was like this ... -- Philip, the king, and Olympias, his queen -- Alexander grows up -- Alexander becomes king -- The beginning of the reign -- Persia, a distant country -- The great adventure begins -- Alexander wins his first great battle -- Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot, wins a second battle, and sacks Tyre -- Egypt and the Temple of Ammon-Ra -- The end of the king of kings -- Into Asia and beyond -- Roxana, Alexander's wife, and the death of Cleitus -- Elephants at the gates of India -- Mutiny -- The return -- Alexander conquers everything except himself -- The death of Alexander -- Afterwards.
A life of the warrior who, as a prince, tamed the powerful horse Bucephalus and, during his short reign as king, built an empire that covered almost all of the then-known world, including Greece, India, Egypt, and Persia.
Transcribed from: New York : Random House, 1953.
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