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.
關於作者：
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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