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Title: The Journals of Lewis and Clark (National Geographic Adventure Classics) by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Anthony Brandt ISBN: 0-7922-6921-7 Publisher: National Geographic Society Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is the book to read!
Comment: Brandt's abridgment of these important historical documents will be the one that lasts for years to come. He makes these journals accessible to the everyday historian, who is interested in what the Corps of Discovery actually did, and saves us from having to struggle with quaint and erroneous spelling.
Interestingly, Lewis and Clark themselves never meant the journals to be published just as they wrote them. The editor Brandt has done us a great service by cleaning up the language, making the text flow seamlessly, and leaving out the boring parts.
There are those who will carp over his correction of the spelling (pedants who read Virgil in the original), but the rest of us are grateful. Brandt's talent as a writer shines through the work as he connects the journal sections with elegantly crafted passages.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally, the Story as Lewis & Clark would have told it
Comment: It's no secret that the only narrative available from Lewis and Clark themselves was one they wrote in raw form while on their journey. While this offers a certain "real time" value, it is a value best appreciated by researchers and not your average reader. I was intrigued enough by other books in this series to want to hear about Lewis & Clark's adventures in their own words, but not to read details of every single day of their journey which, by its very nature, can't help but be monotonous.
This book, on the other hand, gave me a true sense of what their journey was like, and what they were like without giving me the details of each morning's breakfast menu.
And that sense, by the way, was conveyed without any sense of abruptness or with any apparent gaps in the narrative. This book was a joy insomuch as it delivered the experience smoothly in their own words without the kind of puzzling pauses which accompany writings in broken English.
In much the same way that this exploration opened the west, this book opened my eyes to this exploration. It is absolutely worth the read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Thrilling Read!
Comment: After trying (trying is the operative word here) to slog through the journals in the original spelling and with little or no punctuation, it was a real joy to read this version edited by Anthony Brandt. The stories of their encounters with natives tribes, grizzley bears and of their day-to-day lives make for a compelling adventure story. And unlike the previous editions, Brandt summarizes those sections that are not included in well-crafted prose that keep the story flowing. This reads like the true adventure story it was and is destined to be a classic in the American history literature.
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Title: The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Gary E. Moulton ISBN: 080322950X Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose ISBN: 0684826976 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: National Geographic Guide to the Lewis & Clark Trail by Thomas Schmidt ISBN: 0792264711 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Journals of Patrick Gass: Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Patrick Gass, Carol Lynn Macgregor ISBN: 0878423516 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Bernard DeVoto ISBN: 0395859964 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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