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This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the

continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the

explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark

exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they

interacted with those who traveled with them, the people they

discovered along the way, the animals they hunted, and the land

they walked across. The book discovers new heroes and brings old

ones into historical focus.

Thomas P. Slaughter interrogates the explorers’ dreams, how they

wrote and what they aimed to possess, their interactions with

animals, Indians, and each other, their sense of themselves as

leaders and men, and why they feared that they had failed their

nation and President. Slaughter’s Lewis and Clark are more

confused, frightened, courageous, and flawed than in previous

accounts. They are more human, their expedition more dramatic, and

thus their story is more revealing about our own relationships to

history and myth.

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Thomas P. Slaughter is the Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History

at the University of Notre Dame. He is the award-winning author of

three previous books—most recently, The Natures of John

and William Bartram—and is the editor of three others,

including the Library of America edition of William Bartram:

Travels and Other Writings. He lives in South Bend,

Indiana, with his wife and two children.

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媒体评论

Scintillating. . . . Delves deep and asks questions that will

forever change [our] reading of these men.

?Newsday

"Adds new and fascinating dimensions to our appreciation

of the Corps of Discovery and their brave trek through the American

West." ?

The Times-Picayune

?A rueful reading of the historical record that delights in

considering the thorniest questions within it.? ?

The Washington

Post

"Slaughter successfully achieves his goal of delving

beneath the surface of the journals...Raise[s] interesting

questions about Lewis and Clark, and shows that we shouldn't take

everything we read in the journals as truth." ?

The Seattle

Times

?Fascinating? Through close attention to the explorers?

own accounts of their journey, Slaughter probes the threats that

confronted Lewis and Clark at every turn.? ? The Times-Picayune --

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书籍介绍

This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted with those who traveled with them, the people they discovered along the way, the animals they hunted, and the land they walked across. The book discovers new heroes and brings old ones into historical focus.

Thomas P. Slaughter interrogates the explorers’ dreams, how they wrote and what they aimed to possess, their interactions with animals, Indians, and each other, their sense of themselves as leaders and men, and why they feared that they had failed their nation and President. Slaughter’s Lewis and Clark are more confused, frightened, courageous, and flawed than in previous accounts. They are more human, their expedition more dramatic, and thus their story is more revealing about our own relationships to history and myth.