W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Alexander the Great

Gunther, John, 1901-1970.

Alexander the Great [contracted braille] / John Gunther. - Louisville, Ky. : American Printing House for the Blind, 1964. - 1 v. of contracted braille.

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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Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. --Juvenile literature.


Generals--Greece--Biography--Juvenile literature.


Greece--History--Macedonian expansion, 359-323 B.C.--Juvenile literature.
Greece--Kings and rulers--Biography--Juvenile literature.

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