The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition) - Couverture souple

Lewis, Meriwether

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0395859964 ISBN 13 : 9780395859964

Editeur : Mariner Books, 1997

Synopsis

The Journals of Lewis and Clark In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank -- not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissione Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Journals of Lewis and Clark are "the first report on the West, on the United States over the hill and beyond the sunset, on the province of the American future” (Bernard DeVoto).

 

In 1803, the great expanse of the Louisiana Purchase was an empty canvas. Keenly aware that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward—and that a “Voyage of Discovery” would be necessary to determine the nature of the frontier—President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, Lewis mapped rivers, traced the principal waterways to the sea, and established the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Together the captains kept this journal: a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the native tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River, that has become an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history.

Biographie de l'auteur

Frank Bergon is a novelist and professor at Vassar College

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395859964
• ISBN 13: 9780395859964
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 570