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The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
by Bernard Devoto

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Endorsed by Stephen Ambrose himself ("It is the ideal selection for the citizen-reader, an American classic in its own right..."), this selection of the journals of Lewis and Clark edited by celebrated novelist, literary scholar, and historian Bernard De Voto is undoubtedly the best single volume edition of the journals available. Though there are many, many other versions to chose from, as an acknowledged master of both literary and historical realms (and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award), DeVoto was uniquely qualified to bring the journals to life, making this, as Wallace Stegner once wrote of DeVoto's work, "not merely history as record, [but] history as literature."

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Publisher Comments:

'In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank — not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation\'s destiny lay westward and that a national \"Voyage of Discovery\" must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. together the captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the Indian tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River. In keeping this record they made an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, writes Bernard DeVoto, was \"the first report on the West, on the United States over the hill and beyond the sunset, on the province of the American future. There has never been another so excellent or so influential...It satisfied desire and created desire: the desire of the westering nation.\"'

Synopsis:

For forty-five years, the standard edition of this classic, with a new foreword by Stephen Ambrose, the best-selling author of Undaunted Courage.
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About the Author

'Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was a renowned scholar-historian of the American West and one of the country\'s greatest men of letters.'
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780395859964
Editor:
Devoto, Bernard
Author:
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Editor:
De Voto, Bernard Augustine
Editor:
DeVoto, Bernard
Author:
De Voto, Bernard Augustine
Author:
DeVoto, Bernard
Author:
Lewis, Meriwether
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
Boston :
Subject:
History
Subject:
West (u.s.)
Subject:
United States - West - General
Subject:
United States - Antebellum Era
Subject:
United States - 19th Century
Subject:
Clark, william, 1770-1838
Subject:
Columbia river and valley
Subject:
Columbia River
Subject:
Missouri River
Subject:
West
Subject:
West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration.
Copyright:
1997
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Series Volume:
111125
Publication Date:
April 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
576
Dimensions:
8.32x5.48x1.37 in. 1.24 lbs.
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