Undaunted Courage | The Essence of Lewis and Clark
In the following review, Scott B. Eckberg asserts that
Ambrose ‘‘superbly conveys the essence’’ of Lewis
and Clark and their famous expedition.
The 1803–1806 Lewis and Clark expedition was conceived by the young republic’s most visionary president and conducted under scrupulous military organization and leadership. Launched into the unknown, its potential for marvelous discovery was tempered by an equally unsettling prospect of its unforeseeable demise. The palpable tension between these outcomes makes for a story more compellingly told in the eyewitness accounts of its participants.
Stephen E. Ambrose, author of a definitive history of D-Day revisits this...
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