Lewis and Clark and the Route to the Pacific (World Explorers) - Tapa blanda

Lewis and Clark and the Route to the Pacific

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Descripción Paperback. Condición: Original pictorial wraps. Second printing. New York and Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991. 7.25" wide by 9.25" tall. Fine condition. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Flat, uncreased spine. Pages are fresh and crisp. Lavishly illustrated with maps, prints, paintings and photos in b/w, plus an 8-page section in full-color. Bibliography. Index. This is a history of the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition which explored the Louisiana Purchase territory at the request of President Thomas Jefferson. From the rear cover: "On May 14, 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, two stalwart Virginians in command of fortysome men known collectively as the Corps of Discovery, departed from Camp Dubois, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, for a journey into the unknown. Their voyage, which would become the most famous journey of exploration in American history, would last more than 2 years and take them in excess of 2,700 miles beyond the United State's existing borders to the source of the Missouri in the Rocky Mountains and across that forbidding range all the way to the Pacific Ocean.". Second printing. Soft Cover. Original pictorial wraps. 136pp. Nº de ref. del artículo: 003303

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