
Exploring Lewis and Clark
Reflections on Men and Wilderness
$33.61
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2004
Summary
This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted with those who traveled with them, the people they discovered along the way, the animals they hunted, and the land they walked across. The book discovers new heroes and brings old ones…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375700712 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375700714 |
| Author: | Thomas P. Slaughter |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 131mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Critics Review
“Scintillating… . Delves deep and asks questions that will forever change [our] reading of these men.” —Newsday
“Adds new and fascinating dimensions to our appreciation of the Corps of Discovery and their brave trek through the American West.” —The Times-Picayune
“A rueful reading of the historical record that delights in considering the thorniest questions within it.” —The Washington Post
“Slaughter successfully achieves his goal of delving beneath the surface of the journals…Raise[s] interesting questions about Lewis and Clark, and shows that we shouldn’t take everything we read in the journals as truth.” —The Seattle Times
“Fascinating… Through close attention to the explorers’ own accounts of their journey, Slaughter probes the threats that confronted Lewis and Clark at every turn.” – The Times-Picayune
Thomas P. Slaughter
Thomas P. Slaughter is the Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the award-winning author of three previous books—most recently, The Natures of John and William Bartram—and is the editor of three others, including the Library of America edition of William Bartram’s Travels and Other Writings. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his wife and two children.
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