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Title: The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Frank Bergon, William Clark, Meriwether Lewis ISBN: 0140252177 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.93
Rating: 5
Summary: Journals of the men who shaped the face of the nation.
Comment: This is an excellent book. It is hard to imagine the hardship these men had to endure on their trip across the nation, but by reading this book you get some kind of idea. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is even slightly intrested in the history of the Lewis and Clark expedition. This book tells it exactly how it happened, from the men who were there. I strongly believe that books like these should be required reading in schools....who knows what this country would be like today had it not been for those brave men.
Rating: 5
Summary: One great American story
Comment: Fascinating personal day-by-day account of the journey of Lewis and Clark through the Louisiana Territory. As you read, you feel yourself slowly seeing the American west as it was seen by those who first wrote of its magnificence, the customs of the natives, the wildlife, and climate. You see it for what it was, and for its possibilities. This edition has been edited from the individual journals of both Lewis and Clark and some of the others. It has been made more compact by putting in only passages that tell the story, but with no sentence restructuring or spelling corrections. Sometimes this requires you to figure the meaning out, but is never a big problem. The chapter length was perfect for reading a chapter a day which means 33 days. The only bad chapter was 31, which was a summary of one leg lifted from DeVoto's The Course of Empire, which I felt was harder to understand than the journals. The appendix includes Jefferson's Instructions, list of personnel, and specimens returned.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dazzling, legendary
Comment: There is not much new that I can add which has not already been said of the Journals. Simply put, fantastic! I have read some excellent books regarding the Lewis and Clark Expedition, but reading the actual journals themselves makes one feel as though they are right there alongside them. Names such as John Colter, the Fields brothers, George Drouillard, Peter Cruzatte, Touissant Charbonneau and his wife Sacajawea, John Ordway, George Shannon, and many of the others in the journal become so familiar, it's as if the reader is a "fly on the saddle" (so to speak) during the entire expedition. Every chapter, every leg of the journey, has something relating to the hardships, sacrifices, conjectures, speculations, survival strategies, Indian confrontations and appropriate manners of behavior, along with wonderful descriptions of landforms, Indian culture, animals, plants, climate, etc. A truly gripping, meaningful look at early western U.S. exploration. DeVoto's introduction and editing is extremely well done.
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Title: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose ISBN: 0684826976 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery by Stephen E. Ambrose, Sam Abell ISBN: 0792264738 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: National Geographic Guide to the Lewis & Clark Trail by Thomas Schmidt ISBN: 0792264711 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Essential Lewis and Clark by Landon Y. Jones ISBN: 0060196009 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Journals of Patrick Gass: Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Patrick Gass, Carol Lynn MacGregor ISBN: 0878423516 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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