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The Journals of Lewis and Clark Bernard DeVoto Stephen Ambrose 1997 Paperback

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Authors: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Title: The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Editor: Bernard DeVoto
Foreword: Stephen E. Ambrose
Maps: Erwin Raisz
Publisher: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Company
Place: Boston and New York
Year: 1997 edition
Printing: Second printing
Format: Trade paperback
ISBN: 0395859964
Preservation: Preserved in an archival protective envelope.

Condition: Very Good Plus. Age tanning to pages; binding sound. Preserved in an archival protective envelope.

River crossings, unfamiliar plants and animals, difficult weather, and encounters with Native nations fill Lewis and Clark’s record of their 1804–1806 expedition. Their journals preserve the daily work behind the journey: finding provisions, navigating waterways, recording observations, and negotiating passage across an inhabited continent.

Historian Bernard DeVoto selected and edited the journals into a single-volume narrative, retaining the explorers’ voices and much of their natural-history reporting. Maps by Erwin Raisz help readers follow the route from the Missouri River to the Pacific and back.

This Mariner edition adds a foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Undaunted Courage. It offers an accessible way into the expedition’s firsthand accounts without requiring the full multivolume journals.