This beautifully illustrated coffee table book was commissioned in 1997 to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Voyage of Discovery of May1804…
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This book merits 4 stars only as it could have been more comprehensive to do justice to the unprecedented 4-month tour of the Indian subcontinent…
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I first read in 2013 this excellent narrative of the famous Lewis and Clark exploration for an all-water route to the Pacific Ocean by sailing…
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There are two popular histories of The Battle of the Little Big Horn of 1876. The earlier book, Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen Ambrose…
View More Brilliant – The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
I read this hardcover when it came out in 2013. This is an easy to read the biography of a still relatively unknown American who…
View More An obsession – Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis