Undaunted Courage

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An ALA Notable Book
"Undaunted Courage is a work of love: rhapsodic and heroic."
—David M. Shribman, The Wall Street Journal
In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author of D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis's lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along the way, Ambrose shows us the American West as Lewis saw it—wild, awesome, and pristinely beautiful. Undaunted Courage is a stunningly told action tale that will delight readers for generations.
Exclusively in this paperback edition are two entirely new chapters on Lewis's interaction with Native Americans.
"A fine and important book, intelligently conceived and splendidly written."
—Blaine Harden, The Washington Post Book World
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Fülszöveg

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An ALA Notable Book
"Undaunted Courage is a work of love: rhapsodic and heroic."
—David M. Shribman, The Wall Street Journal
In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author of D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis's lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along the way, Ambrose shows us the American West as Lewis saw it—wild, awesome, and pristinely beautiful. Undaunted Courage is a stunningly told action tale that will delight readers for generations.
Exclusively in this paperback edition are two entirely new chapters on Lewis's interaction with Native Americans.
"A fine and important book, intelligently conceived and splendidly written."
—Blaine Harden, The Washington Post Book World
"A swiftly moving, full-dress treatment of the expedition A lively retelling of the journey of the two captains conveyed with passionate enthusiasm by Mr. Ambrose."
—Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., The New York Times Book Review
"[Ambrose] not only captures the romance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in Undaunted Courage, he also superbly delineates the cultural and political context out of which it arose. . . . Ambrose brilliantly reconstructs the expedition from Lewis's point of view." —Daniel L. Wick, San Francisco Chronicle
Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller D-Day and multivolume biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He is founder of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans and President Emeritus of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. He lives in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and Helena, Montana. Vissza