Category: History: U.S.: Western: Lewis & Cla

Copyright/published Year: 2003 by Knopf

ISBN: 0375400788

Binding: hardcover

Description:
Exploring Lewis and Clark probes beneath the traditional ì narrative of the journey, looking beyond the perspectives of the ì explorers themselves to those of the woman and the men who ì accompanied them, as well as of the Indians who met them along ì the way.

It reexamines the journals and what they suggest about Lewis's ì and Clark's misinterpretations of the worlds they passed through ì and the people in them. Thomas Slaughter portrays Lewis and Clark ì not as heroes but as men-brave, bound by cultural prejudices and ì blindly hell-bent on achieving their goal.

He searches for the woman Sacajawea rather than the icon that ì she has become. He seeks the historical rather than the legendary ì York, Clark's slave. He discovers what the various tribes made of ì the expedition, including the notion that this multiracial, ì multiethnic group was embarked on a search for spiritual ì meaning.

This is a used book in Very good condition.

Additional condition description

Has small red remainder dot on top of pages. Text is clean and unmarked. Jacket in protective mylar protector. Sound binding.

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