From the bestselling author of D-Day comes the definitive book on the most momentous expedition in American history--and one of the greatest adventure stories of all time.
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..
Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many more leading political, scientific, and military figures of the turn of the century.
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.
Next comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson\'s.
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.
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 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.
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.
From the New York Times 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.
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Illustrations throughout.
An adventure filled with high romance and personal tragedy, involving the greatest expedition ever undertaken in the history of this country.--Alexander Theroux, Chicago Tribune.
From the bestselling author of D-Day comes the definitive book on the most momentous expedition in American history--and one of the greatest adventure stories of all time
