<p>This book describes the life of Louis Braille who, blinded accidentally as a young boy, was sent to an institution in Paris where he devoted his life to developing the finger system for reading now used by the blind all over the world. He died at the age of 43, unknown and unhonoured. The author tells of the trials and torments Braille suffered in his attempts to perfect the system and to get it accepted. Lennard Bickel has also written "This Accursed Land", "The Deadly Element", "Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts", "Rise Up to Life", "Facing Starvation" and "The Southern Universe".</p>

Triumph Over Darkness: The Life of Louis Braille

Computers & Technology

Bickel, Lennard

Graphics & Design

Allen& Unwin

This Accursed Land

Travel

Travel Writing

MacMillan & Co., Ltd.

On the same coast, somewhere, were his other men...What had they found? Where were they? His own party was lodged in the chilled breath of this vast polar wilderness where he wrote: 'The winds have a force so tterrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land.' Sir Douglas Mawson's epic and tragic journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland has been described by Sir Edmund Hillary as 'the greatest story of lone survival in Antarctic exploration'. This Accursed Land tells the story of how Mawson declined to join Scott's ill-fated British expedition in order to lead the Australasian party and his three man team which set out to explore the far eastern coastline of the Antarctic continent. The loss of one of his men and most of his supplies turned a hazardous trek into a nightmare. Mawson and his colleague, Mertz, were trapped 320 miles from base with only nine days' food and nothing for the dogs. They lived on the journey back by slaughtering their starving animals and eating what is now known to have been poisoned meat. Mawson's ultimate and lone struggle for survival after Mertz's descent into madness - starving, poisoned, exhausted, and indescribably cold - is one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of exploration. When he arrived back his weight had reduced from fifteen stone to eight stone.

This accursed land

Macmillan

Deadly Element

Science & Math

Shackleton's forgotten argonauts

Macmillan of Australia

<p>Classic tale of survival. A man's walk of 320 miles through the Antarctic in nightmarish conditions.</p>

Mawson's Will

Research

Avon/Books

'A great fire seemed to burn within him . . . we wondered whether he would ever find the right outlet for his greatness' Sir Alan Drury Howard Florey was the brilliant, ambitious and sometimes ruthless Australian who developed penicillin, the first antibiotic, enabling a mastery of disease and death never before imagined in human history. The penicillin epic traces the fascinating, often frustrated path of Florey's drive in Britain and the United States to isolate, test and produce the 'miracle drug' that was to empty the infectious wards and revolutionize surgery - changing the pattern of world disease.

Howard Florey: The Man Who Made Penicillin (Australian Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

Melbourne University Press

When Howard Walter Florey took up his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford in 1922, medical practice had not radically altered in two hundred years. Doctors still had no counter to such fearsome diseases as syphilis and meningitis, no answer to pneumonia, septicaemia, diphtheria, or child-bed fever. Yet within two decades of arriving in England from his native Australia, Florey had developed penicillin, which was virtually to wipe out these killer diseases. Alexander Fleming, of course, is known world-wide as the discoverer of penicillin. What is not nearly so widely known is that Florey pursued his own research into antibacterial agents, and it was he who took up penicillin after Fleming had discarded it, and developed the drug for everyday use. "Rise Up to Life" follows Florey's career from his university days in Adelaide, through the period of his greatest research projects at Oxford, Cambridge and Sheffield which culminated in his success with penicillin, to the final years of his life when he was the first Australian to be elected President of the Royal Society. But this biography goes beyond exploring with insight and sympathy the life of a great scientist to give the reader a vivid and dramatic picture of the scientific processes that led up to a new discovery and a new era in medicine.

Rise up to Life: A Biography of Howard Walter Florey Who Made Penicillin and Gave It to the World

Charles Scribner`s Sons

At the age of three Louis Braille accidentally blinded himself. Thirteen years later he created a code of raised dots punched through sheets of paper and fashioned an alphabet that opened the world of learning for the blind.

Triumph Over Darkness (U)

Ulverscroft

The story of an epic and tragic journey across 600 hundred miles of unkown Antarctic wasteland. Sir Douglas Mawson led a three-man team who set out with husky teams to explore the far eastern coastline of the

This Accursed Land (U) (Ulverscroft Large Print Series)

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