A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
When Grandfather's three-legged dog Mr. Biggins disappears on Christmas Eve, Lizzie and Grandfather go up the mountain to find him and have an unusual adventure.
Describes the various landscapes of America, from the Rocky Mountains and Alaska's wildlands to the giant sequoias of California, relating the parent-child relationship to these natural settings.