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Lewis and Clark

by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns

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Published
1997
Genre
History
Pages
272
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/500771.Lewis_Clark?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_22

Reading measures

Suggested reading age
ages 14–17
Ambleside year
Year 9 onwards · ages 14–17

An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.

The expedition, led by two remarkable and utterly different commanders -- the brilliant but troubled Meriwether Lewis and his trustworthy, gregarious friend William Clark -- was to be the United States' first exploration into unknown spaces. The unlikely crew came from every corner of the young nation: soldiers from New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and Kentucky, French Canadian boatmen, several sons of white fathers and Indian mothers, a slave named York, and eventually a Shoshone Indian woman, Sacagawea, who brought along her infant son.

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AdventureClarkExplorationLewisNonfictionTravelUnited States of America