"There is no more inspiring chapter in the annals of human experience than that which tells how handicapped lives have triumphed over their limitations and have made good. Time and again they have proved that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Burdened and afflicted, they have yet refused to accept defeat, and have left a record of brave endeavour and of surprising achieve-ment."
 
Such is the theme of this book. Mr. Branch brings to his task a delicate sympathy and freshness of insight. We meet again here, in a series of short biographical sketches, many who earned fame by their triumph over physical handicaps-Helen Keller, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Milton. With them we meet other burden-bearers whose names are less well known but whose life-story is no less inspiring.
 
This little book is published in the hope that it will come into the hands of many people who are carrying the lonely burden of a handicapped life, and that in it they will find comfort, encouragement and companionship.