Enjoy Lewis & Clark: The Journey Of The Corps Of Discovery Articulated By Dayton Duncan Contained In Copy

not give it aHow can you beat Ken Burns whether you saw the documentary or not, this is a great book, it's loaded with great photos of what LampC could have seen, including many astounding Edward Curtis, much of participants original text including photos of the manuscripts, I appreciated the in depth writing about sacagewea and the many first nation people they befriended along the way, also the documentation of members' lives after their return, Excellent well researched living history book, I hope to get a chance to see the TV special on it soon, It was amazing that many of the party survived, For most this was their life I read this to get ready for writing a story for part of our Lewis amp Clark series, and so I was looking for concise account of the trip.
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this one was very well done, and because it was a companion to a Ken Burns documentary, it had lots of great illustrations as well, The "accompanying" book for Ken Burns' PBS documentary on Lewis and Clark, Two men who with their band of explorers accelerated the progress of the United States westward in an expansion that changed the face of the continent, The immensity of land that Clark thought "would takegenerations" to colonize was mapped, populated, and farmed within, The tale is fascinating, and most of us know bits and pieces from our introduction to them as schoolchildren, but reading the whole story as an adult, do you begin to appreciate the enormity or their task, and the amount of grit, luck, and destiny that they possessed.
It does read a little like a text book but aptly carries you through the chronology of Lewis and Clark's journey, from birth of the idea to the journey itself and the aftermath of the explorers and their respective fates.
The large swath of land that Thomas Jefferson purchased needed exploration, and this book is a fascinating way to experience it, utilizing the journals of the men, stories of those that they had met along the way, and other historical records to recreate the trek.
It is filled with wonderful paintings from early artists who travelled in the few decades after their journey, and pictures of the objects used, photocopies of their journal entries with original illustrations, and old photographs of peoples from their respective native American tribes.
It is a fascinating story that every American, nay every person, should be familiar with filled with the thrill of discovery, the challenge of man versus nature, and the legacy of consequence for the peoples native American affected.
Read a bit more like a text book than I expected, although it would have been sweet to read in middle or high school, A couple of friends and I are planning to retrace the trail taken by the Corps of Discovery by more modern means, and I thought this would be a good thing to read beforehand.
Also, some of the turnofthecentury photographs of plains and Rockies Indians are fucking sweet, Well written book on the Lewis and Clark expedition, A very shortened version of the trip, good information at the end of what happened to the Corps, Excellent. I listened to this audiobook read by Ken Burns years ago, It's a wonderful telling of one of America's grandest adventures, Technical but full of pictures and drawings documenting the Lewis and Clark journey, It is astar but that isif you are looking for factual documentation of this historical event not astar meaning anyone at anytime would enjoy it.
Understand How to get transported back in time and get lost in time imagining you are struggling along side them in their trip West, You might have already discovered Dayton Duncans book Lewis amp Clark: An Illustrated History, With many wonderful pictures and chock full of information, this book is a delight for Lewis and Clark fans, This popped up in a friend's feed and I had forgotten to add and rate it, I love history kinda a nerd in that way, This was a phenomenal book and so much of it was due to their notes on their journey, Definitely not PC, but it is so cool what they accomplished for that day and time, Well written, thorough, and very interesting, As we are packing and planning for our own road trip out west I awed and amazed by the Corps of Discovery's group of men and Sacajawea, Their journey was long and very successful, accomplishing what they set out to do, I hope to be so successful, With the help of numerous photos, maps, and quotations from diaries, the authors, Dayton and Burns, hit the high and low points of the Lewis and Clark expedition while providing some interesting facts emerged, such as, for instance, the tameness with the exception of grizzly bears of the wildlife, or how often the expedition traveled without seeing Indians, or that the Teton Sioux were relative newcomers to the plains, having moved there from forested areas further east, etc.
, etc. A good read. A lot of photographs. Easy reading. A lot of excerpts from journal, which was wonderful, The men on the Corps of Discovery kept detailed journals about their trip, Unfortunately, several of those journals have been lost, This was a fascinating book of the discovery of the Louisiana Purchase and what the United States really did purchase from France and the Oregon Country going clear to the Pacific Ocean.
What a difficult adventure. I want to read more about this trip, Great read! A perfect introduction to the Journals of Lewis amp Clark with an immense amount of research and thoughtful essays by various individuals along the way, There are some poignant vintage photos of areas where the explorers visited and some of native tribes, as well, For readers interested in Lewis amp Clark's journey, I might suggest reading this to whet your appetite, The actual journals are fascinating, but not the easiest reading, Start here. If you love this book, then you're ready to take the plunge into the journals! Informative, but repetitive and lacking good maps,

Bought in a used book store in Northern Oregon, this illustrated history provided a good introduction to the Lewis and Clark expedition, Its strength is the use of numerous writings and drawings from the expedition journals, Cth paintings, lateCth photographs, and other documentary materials, This is the companion book to a documentary film by Ken Burns and seems angled to those who appreciate a visual history,

At the same time, it could have been so much better with a stronger editorial hand, The preface notes that Dayton Duncan, who had written an extraordinary book, Out West, had been persuaded to author this history, Unfortunately, unlike his previous book, this is not “a masterpiece, beautifully written, and unusually moving, ” The last chapter by Duncan provides a good reflection, however, on the legacy of the expedition,

A key problem is repetition, There is continuous duplication between the texts describing the illustrations, the journal extracts, and the main body of the history, To take just one example, on page, a journal entry refers to a bitterly cold night after which ”a man Came in who had Stayed out without fire, and verry thinly Clothed.
This man was not the least injured” Right next to this text is a late Cth photograph of a lightlyclothed Indian hunter with a text note stating that the “Mandans and Hidatsas seemed much better at bearing the frigid temperatures, including one hunter who returned uninjured after spending a night on the Plains, without a fire or heavy clothing.
” This duplication is almost continuous throughout the book, to the point of being irritating,

While Duncan was the main author, several sections come from other writers without being wellintegrated, After reading more thanpages about the expeditions progress as far the Continental Divide, a fivepage essay is introduced by Stephen Ambrose on the relationship between Lewis and Clark, a topic already covered earlier in the book.
A later sevenpage chapter by Erica Funkhouser also seems poorly integrated into the volume, representing speculations on Sacageweas involvement in the expedition and the poems of Funkhouser that this prompted.


Last, the book cries out for maps to provide a clear picture of the different stages of the expedition, In practice, there are only two, The first, on page, gives a very highlevel illustration of the political control of North America in the earlys British Territory, Spanish Territory, Louisiana Purchase etc while the second, on page, gives a summary of the paths of the expedition.
The latter, while useful, is too general to give any real sense of the stages of the expedition detailed in the earlier and later chapters,

Overall, this may be a good starting volume to learn about the Lewis and Clark expedition, but I wish It had been better produced, Given the resources dedicated to making the film documentary and given Duncans expertise in the field, this should have been a much more polished work with fewer repetitions and helpful maps.
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