《Lewis & Clark : The Journey of the Corps of Discovery》是1997年9月Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Lewis & Clark : The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
- 作者：Dayton Duncan、Ken Burns
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780679454502
內容簡介
The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, withmore than 150 illustrations, most in full color.
In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomasJefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscoverycrossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, headingwest into the newly acquired Louisiana Territory.
The expedition, led by two remarkable and utterly differentcommanders--the brilliant but troubled Meriwether Lewis and histrustworthy, gregarious friend William Clark--was to be the UnitedStates' first exploration into unknown spaces. The unlikely crewcame from every corner of the young nation: soldiers from NewHampshire and Pennsylvania and Kentucky, French Canadian boatmen,several sons of white fathers and Indian mothers, a slave namedYork, and eventually a Shoshone Indian woman, Sacagawea, whobrought along her infant son.
Together they would cross the continent, searching for the fabledNorthwest Passage that had been the great dream of explorers sincethe time of Columbus. Along the way they would face incrediblehardship, disappointment, and danger; record in their journalshundreds of animals and plants previously unknown to science;encounter a dizzying diversity of Indian cultures; and, most ofall, share in one of America's most enduring adventures. Theirstory may have passed into national mythology, but never before hastheir experience been rendered as vividly, in words and pictures,as in this marvelous homage by Dayton Duncan.
Plentiful excerpts from the journals kept by the two captains andfour enlisted men convey the raw emotions, turbulent spirits, andconstant surprises of the explorers, who each day confronted theunknown with fresh eyes. An elegant preface by Ken Burns, as wellas contributions from Stephen E. Ambrose, William Least Heat-Moon,and Erica Funkhouser, enlarge upon important threads in Duncan'snarrative, demonstrating the continued potency of events that tookplace almost two centuries ago. And a wealth of paintings,photographs, journal sketches, maps, and film images from the PBSdocumentary lends this historic, nation-redefining milestone avibrancy and immediacy to which no American will be immune.
