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Excellent well researched living history book. I hope to get a chance to see the TV special on it soon.
A good introductory book to the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition. I want to read more about this fascinating expedition into the American West.
A perfect introduction to the Journals of Lewis & Clark with an immense amount of research and thoughtful essays by various individuals along the way. There are some poignant vintage photos of areas where the explorers visited and some of native tribes, as well. For readers interested in Lewis & Clark's journey, I might suggest reading this to whet your appetite. The actual journals are fascinating, but not the easiest reading. Start here. If you love this book, then you're ready to take the plu...
How to get transported back in time and get lost in time imagining you are struggling along side them in their trip West.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Very well done. Packed with information.
A lot of photographs. Easy reading. A lot of excerpts from journal, which was wonderful. The men on the Corps of Discovery kept detailed journals about their trip. Unfortunately, several of those journals have been lost. This was a fascinating book of the discovery of the Louisiana Purchase and what the United States really did purchase from France and the Oregon Country going clear to the Pacific Ocean. What a difficult adventure. I want to read more about this trip.
Great read!
This book was a great visual display of the expedition, with photos of original COD items and photos of the Indian tribes the COD encountered (taken 50-100 years later). The narrative is a bit slow going and lacks the excitement and detail of Stephen Ambrose's classic "Undaunted Courage". The book is a companion to the Ken Burns PBS series of the same name. The video series is well worth watching for people interested in this expedition.
Informative, but repetitive and lacking good maps.Bought in a used book store in Northern Oregon, this illustrated history provided a good introduction to the Lewis and Clark expedition. Its strength is the use of numerous writings and drawings from the expedition journals, C19th paintings, late-C19th photographs, and other documentary materials. This is the companion book to a documentary film by Ken Burns and seems angled to those who appreciate a visual history. At the same time, it could hav...
The "accompanying" book for Ken Burns' PBS documentary on Lewis and Clark. Two men who with their band of explorers accelerated the progress of the United States westward in an expansion that changed the face of the continent. The immensity of land that Clark thought "would take 100 generations" to colonize was mapped, populated, and farmed within 5. The tale is fascinating, and most of us know bits and pieces from our introduction to them as schoolchildren, but reading the whole story as an adu...
This is one of my favorites. I have never much thought of myself as a wild west kind-of girl, but this book pulls you into it. Really enjoyed it and it opened up a whole new genre of reading interest for me.
With the help of numerous photos, maps, and quotations from diaries, the authors, Dayton and Burns, hit the high and low points of the Lewis and Clark expedition while providing some interesting facts emerged, such as, for instance, the tameness (with the exception of grizzly bears) of the wildlife, or how often the expedition traveled without seeing Indians, or that the Teton Sioux were relative newcomers to the plains, having moved there from forested areas further east, etc., etc. A good read...
As we are packing and planning for our own road trip out west I awed and amazed by the Corps of Discovery's group of men and Sacajawea. Their journey was long and very successful, accomplishing what they set out to do. I hope to be so successful.
Excellent companion to the PBS documentary. Of course, it has more details. I particularly enjoyed the followup about Patrick Gass: When Sergeant Patrick Gass was 60, he married 20-year-old Marie Hamilton, and they had six children. He was 90 when he volunteed to fight in the Civil War. And he was almost 99 when he died in West Virginia, the last surviving member of the Corps of Discovery. and the sentimental comment by Stephen Ambrose on the subject of friendship: Friendship is different fr...
A very shortened version of the trip. good information at the end of what happened to the Corps.
Well written book on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Love this book. Great telling of this event.
Why not give it a 5? How can you beat Ken Burns? whether you saw the documentary or not, this is a great book. it's loaded with great photos of what L&C could have seen, including many astounding Edward Curtis. much of participants original text including photos of the manuscripts. I appreciated the in depth writing about sacagewea and the many first nation people they befriended along the way. also the documentation of members' lives after their return.