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Lewis & clark's expedition from st. Louis to the pacific ocean is one of the greatest adventure tales ever told. Stephen ambrose relates considerable detail about meriwether lewis and william clark from the records and diaries.
Stephen ambrose is an excellent historian and author. Ambrose describes their frustration and their impatience to return. The only criticism i have is that ambrose seems to be overly critical of lewis’ and jefferson’s choices toward the end of the boo... Read More
The masterful way he's able to kitchen sink so many details of the period, historical references, and chronologies without coming across as an information dump is unbelieveable. The beginning is heavy with facts and background. It is extremely detaile... Read More
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The evidence is now rather overwhelming that ambrose was a chronic, serial, plagiarist. Ambrose simply couldn't face the fact the meriwether lewis contracted * during a celebration with shoshone tribe members following the crossing of the continental ... Read More
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It moves like a saga and can be a bit slow at times but you will not be disappointed
The narrative does bog down a little with the focus on every little fact but still not egregiously enough to deduct a star
Their interaction with the various indian tribes as well as the indians with other tribes was very interesting
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Stephen ambrose relates considerable detail about meriwether lewis and william clark from the records and diaries without allowing the storyline to bog down
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Ambrose excels in the details of the story of lewis and clark though the main emphasis is on lewis
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Most if not the entire crew thought the northwest river was the way to go but lewis and clark felt the southwest to northeast flowing river was the way to go which was correct
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So if you love frontierexploration history this would be a good book to read
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I had an earlier edition and somehow misplaced it so ordered another copy
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Apparently the copy that i received this time was was a later edition
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The suspicion was because some of the text was different from what i had read before
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