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The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Bernard DeVoto (1997, Trade Paperback)

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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 commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. together the captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the Indian 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. In keeping this record they made an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, writes Bernard DeVoto, was "the first report on the West, on the United States over the hill and beyond the sunset, on the province of the American future. There has never been another so excellent or so influential...It satisfied desire and created desire: the desire of the westering nation."

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0395859964
ISBN-13
9780395859964
eBay Product ID (ePID)
459685

Product Key Features

Book Title
Journals of Lewis and Clark
Author
Bernard Devoto
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / West / General, Diaries & Journals, Adventurers & Explorers, Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Expeditions & Discoveries, Essays
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Travel, History, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
576 Pages

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Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
17.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
F592.4 1997
Copyright Date
1997
Lccn
97-001518
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes

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