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　　The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with

more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.

In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomas

Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscovery

crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading

west into the newly acquired Louisiana Territory.

The expedition, led by two remarkable and utterly different

commanders--the brilliant but troubled Meriwether Lewis and his

trustworthy, gregarious friend William Clark--was to be the United

States' first exploration into unknown spaces. The unlikely crew

came from every corner of the young nation: soldiers from New

Hampshire and Pennsylvania and Kentucky, French Canadian boatmen,

several sons of white fathers and Indian mothers, a slave named

York, and eventually a Shoshone Indian woman, Sacagawea, who

brought along her infant son.

Together they would cross the continent, searching for the fabled

Northwest Passage that had been the great dream of explorers since

the time of Columbus. Along the way they would face incredible

hardship, disappointment, and danger; record in their journals

hundreds of animals and plants previously unknown to science;

encounter a dizzying diversity of Indian cultures; and, most of

all, share in one of America's most enduring adventures. Their

story may have passed into national mythology, but never before has

their experience been rendered as vividly, in words and pictures,

as in this marvelous homage by Dayton Duncan.

Plentiful excerpts from the journals kept by the two captains and

four enlisted men convey the raw emotions, turbulent spirits, and

constant surprises of the explorers, who each day confronted the

unknown with fresh eyes. An elegant preface by Ken Burns, as well

as contributions from Stephen E. Ambrose, William Least Heat-Moon,

and Erica Funkhouser, enlarge upon important threads in Duncan's

narrative, demonstrating the continued potency of events that took

place almost two centuries ago. And a wealth of paintings,

photographs, journal sketches, maps, and film images from the PBS

documentary lends this historic, nation-redefining milestone a

vibrancy and immediacy to which no American will be immune.

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