Meriwether Lewis
Author
Publisher
Audio Adventures
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
6 compact discs
Language
English
Description
With nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English.
At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented voyage of discovery. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
lx, 504 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an abridged, modern English version of the journals kept by Meriwether Lewis and his co-captain William Clark, providing a day-to-day account of their 1804-1806 expedition to explore America's newly acquired Louisiana territory, a mission that took them from the Missouri River near St. Louis, to the northern Pacific coast and back.