Undaunted Courage (Signed Copy)

Ambrose, Stephen E.

ISBN 10: 0684811073 / ISBN 13: 9780684811079

Edité par Simon and Schuster, 1996

Signed copy of Stephen Ambrose's splendid narrative history of the expedition led by U.S. Army captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the region of the Louisiana Purchase and territories in the northwest. Signed by Stephen Ambrose on the colophon page. "The Miller Center March 1996" is also written on that page. The Miller Center is am academic center for the study of the U.S. Presidency at the University of Virginia. 511 pages, illustrated. Fifth printing. No sign of previous use. N° de réf. du vendeur 016691

Synopsis :

From the bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

Ambrose has pieced together previously unknown information about weather, terrain, and medical knowledge at the time to provide a vivid backdrop for the expedition. Lewis is supported by a rich variety of colorful characters, first of all Jefferson himself, whose interest in exploring and acquiring the American West went back thirty years. Next comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson’s. There are numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition, along with the French-Indian hunter Drouillard, the great naturalists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many more leading political, scientific, and military figures of the turn of the century.

High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel.

À propos de l?auteur: Stephen E. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Undaunted Courage (Signed Copy)
Éditeur : Simon and Schuster
Date d'édition : 1996
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Near Fine
Etat de la jaquette : Fine
Signé : Signed by Author(s)