Cantitate/Preț
Produs

The Journals of Lewis and Clark: Lewis & Clark Expedition

Autor Clark, Andrew Lewis, Meriwether Lewis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2002 – vârsta de la 18 ani
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.
Citește tot Restrânge

Din seria Lewis & Clark Expedition

Preț: 9781 lei

Puncte Express: 147

Preț estimativ în valută:
1874 2034$ 1607£

Carte indisponibilă temporar

Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780142437360
ISBN-10: 0142437360
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 127 x 193 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Seria Lewis & Clark Expedition


Notă biografică

Frank Bergon is a novelist and professor at Vassar College

Descriere

With 2003 marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark expedition bicentennial celebration, this journal is now reissued in a beautiful new Penguin Classics package.