Lewis and Clark by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns - $7
This magnificent book, is illustrated with the full
spectrum of animals, plants, landscapes, people and entire cultures which and
never previously been seen by ‘civilized’ men.
It also draws on the journals kept by Lewis and Clark and by others in the
Corps/ There are loving description of the
Western landscapes; complaints about gnats, prickly pears and mosquitoes (‘our great
trio of pests, equal to any three curses that ever poor Egypt labored under’,
wrote Lewis)’ reports of their encounter with Indians; introductions to two of
the most fascination characters in their party, the Shoshone woman Sacajawea
and Clark’s slave, York’ intense accounts of hunger, numbing cold, loneliness, excitement
and much more.
Here is all the adventure, hardship and triumph of
an astonishing expedition with re-defined a nation.
Softcover, copyright 1997. Very Good condition.
Total weight: 774g