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Alexander the Great

by Gunther, John, , [contracted braille] / Published by : American Printing House for the Blind, (Louisville, Ky. :) Physical details: 1 v. of contracted braille.
Subject(s): 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.
Year: 1964
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Item type: Contracted Braille
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Contracted Braille Contracted Braille Elementary School Library
General Stacks 		Non-fiction 938.07092 GUN (Browse shelf (Opens below)) Copy: 1 Vol: 1(1) In transit from Elementary School Library to W. Ross Macdonald School Library since 11/23/2021 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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