Adventuring along the Lewis and Clark Trail  enlarge Author: Elizabeth Grossman Publisher: Sierra Club Books Category: Book List Price: $16.95 Buy Used: $0.01 as of 2/9/2012 01:00 EST details You Save: $16.94 (100%) In Stock New (18) Used (33) Collectible (2) from $0.01 Seller: betterworldbooks_ Sales Rank: 1,093,252 Media: Paperback Edition: 1 Pages: 296 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.8 ISBN: 1578050677 Dewey Decimal Number: 917.80434 EAN: 9781578050673 ASIN: 1578050677 Publication Date: April 1, 2003 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! Similar Items: Lewis and Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America (Great American Road Trips series) Traveling the Lewis and Clark Trail, 4th (Falcon Guide) Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark National Geographic Guide to the Lewis & Clark Trail Editorial Reviews: Product Description When the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a vast and unmapped wilderness area to the fledgling United States, President Thomas Jefferson persuaded Congress to fund a "Corps of Discovery" to explore these lands, and he picked a young man by the name of Meriwether Lewis to lead the way. Lewis and his co-command, Captain William Clark, kept journals of the expedition, and what they found amazed the world: three hundred new species of plants and animals, as well as wilderness prairie and mountains previously undescribed. This book is the first guide to contemporary recreational adventures along the route of America's most famous pioneer expedition. It includes abundant natural history, as well as profiles of the many state and national parks to be found in Lewis and Clark country. Author Elizabeth Grossman divides the trail into six sections and recommends ten "explorations" in each, along with many side trips. She offers suggestions for the best day hiking, backpacking, canoeing, kayaking, biking, and wildlife viewing--as well as short, easy walks and car trips to interpretive centers, Native American villages, and scenic vistas. Information on the Corps of Discovery's original campsites is also included, along with excerpts from Lewis and Clark's journals. Though much of the wild lands described in the journals is now gone, travelers can still recognize some of the terrain from these two hundred-year-old descriptions. The present-day adventurer along the Lewis and Clark Trail will doubtless feel a powerful connection with the remaining natural glories that bridge the time from then to now, and will appreciate the opportunity to see this land through the lens of its dramatic history.

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