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Join best-selling author and historian Stephen Ambrose as he and his family journey in the footsteps of Lewis & Clark. Eight chapters weave Ambrose's rich narrative with choice entries from the explorers' journals, with the author's own story of how his family discovered the Trail today, changed by time but timeless in its inspiration. NG photographer Sam Abell's compelling modern images from Missouri to the Pacific Coast offset historic photos, art, and maps, some sketched by Lewis and Clark themselves. In coordination with the Lewis and Clark IMAX film to be released in 2002, the book features a new introduction by Ambrose, which focuses on the making of the film and the importance of commemorating this critical event in American history through the film. His new introduction is accompanied by full-color photographs of the IMAX filming, to give a fresh and intimate view of the voyage today.… (more)
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If you want to learn more about the Lewis and Clark expedition, this is a book to read.
It takes a while to soak in all the beauty of this coffee-table sized
Reaching the destination, the reader feels the breathless elation in Clark's exclamation of "Oh, Joy!" while standing on the Oregon coast watching the Pacific waves crash on the shore line.
Highly recommended for those who enjoy American history.
I read this just after reading Ambrose's Undaunted Courage about the expedition. The text is of course much shorter, but seems to capture the expedition pretty well. In this book, Ambrose goes into a little more detail about the later lives of people other than Lewis & Clark.
The illustration is lavish. Sam Abell's gorgeous photographs are grouped at the end of the chapters, rather than integrated with the text. This can be a little annoying, but they are certainly wonderful shots. A number of other reproductions of artwork, artifacts and museums are worked into the text.