Passage of Discovery

by Daniel B. Botkin

Book Overview

Undertaken from 1804 to 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's transcontinental journey of exploration remains one of the milestones of natural history. Mandated by President Thomas Jefferson, who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399525106
• ISBN13: 9780399525100
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Tarcherperigee
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic travel book!!

This is a fantastic book for anyone visiting the Missouri river. Book has handy maps, illustrations and reference points for the person making a modern day trip. Notes by Stephen Ambrose and Robert Redford at beginning and end of book commend book as well!If you are only mildly interested in Lewis and Clark before reading this book - afterwards you'll be completely astounded by their feats!!

Very readable and informative!

Nothing is as constant as change on the unfettered Missouri River. Few stretches of the Missouri remain as Lewis & Clark observed them. The river, as Botkin observes, is "nature's landscape painter". The canvas is continually changing in response to the forces of a river draining one-sixth of the U.S. Botkin presents us with the story of the first navigation of the river by Lewis and Clarke, through the river's channalization by the Army Corp of Engineers, to present efforts to restore and interpret the river.But, this book is more than an inventory of facts and issues. It contains vivid illustrations of nature's interrelationships and wry observations on the irony of man "improving" nature.This is a very practical, pragmatic, yet poetic book.