Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Very inspiring story of the Corps of Discovery told by the main contributors to the PBS tv series, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. Had bought the book and video long ago, watched the video, and never got around to the book. Glad I finally did - worth the effort. Now, I'm watching the video again.

This is part history, part picture book and partly the story of making the show by the same name. The authors did their research on the Lewis and Clark expedition, followed part of the route for the show, then put this book together after they made the TV show.

I really enjoyed this 'overview' of

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the expedition, which was not as in depth as the version in Jefferson's America, which was good since I'd just read JA! However, this version includes photos of notes, maps and drawings from the expedition, images of paintings (from later in the 1800's) and some pictures from even later in the 1800's. It was all a great companion to Jefferson's America, which I read recently and was much more detailed. I wish I'd actually read them together. The modern commentary on what's happened since was also interesting.

This is a high-level overview of the expedition with the accompanying pictures. If you aren't familiar with the details of the expedition, this will be quite useful. Otherwise, nothing new is presented here as the expedition was very well documented and the notes are still available. There's no mystery or nuggets of new information here, just a very nice presentation.

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