First Across the Continent (eBook)

Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Noah Brooks (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
267 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
978-80-268-9785-9 (ISBN)

Infos

First Across the Continent is the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition written by Noah Brooks. This was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States. It began near St. Louis, made its way westward, and passed through the Continental Divide of the Americas to reach the Pacific coast. The Corps of Discovery was a selected group of US Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark.

Autor

Noah Brooks (1830-1903) was a journalist and editor, best known as the author of a major biography of Abraham Lincoln based on close personal observation. Brooks also wrote a novel exclusively about baseball and an account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2018
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Schlagworte: A Cook's Tour • American History • AWOL on the Appalachian Trail • Bill Bryson • exploration • Exploratory Journey • free country • frontier adventure • historical non-fiction • Into the wild • Lewis and Clark journey • Lonely Planet • Manifest Destiny • Military expedition • on the road • Pacific Northwest exploration • The Journey in Between • the Last of the Mohicans • The lost Art of reading Nature's Signs • western expansion
• ISBN-10: 80-268-9785-4 / 8026897854
• ISBN-13: 978-80-268-9785-9 / 9788026897859