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This is the book’s own stage: Captain Clark — from the portrait Peale painted from life — stands on the stage, while the 1814 History is read aloud in Alan’s voice: the departure from Wood River, the councils with the Osage, Oto, Sioux, Teton and Ricara, the Fort Mandan winter with the Mandans, and the spring setting-out of 1805, with the expedition’s own maps crossing behind him. The bookstore barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- The 1814 History, Preface, Life of Lewis, and Book I, Chapters I–VII complete: History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark (1814) — Paul Allen’s Preface and Thomas Jefferson’s memoir of Captain Lewis, then the journey itself: the departure from Wood River, the councils, the Fort Mandan winter, and the spring setting-out of 1805.
- About 7 hours 38 minutes of narration — Alan reads the book aloud in English, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes, while Captain Clark stands on the stage.
- The expedition’s own maps and portraits — the great 1814 Track map drawn from Clark’s own chart, the river maps of the book, and the Peale portraits of the captains, painted from life, stand whole in the gallery.
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This is the public-domain text: History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark (Philadelphia, 1814), prepared for the press by Paul Allen from the captains’ journals, presented as a talking hologram book. An honest word, printed on this book’s face as it is in its disclaimer: Lewis died in 1809 with the journals unpublished, and Clark gave the manuscripts to Nicholas Biddle, who worked them, with Clark at hand to answer his questions, into the continuous narrative published in 1814 — so the words are Biddle’s telling of Lewis and Clark’s own records, their journey, their observations, and their facts, in the prose of the man they chose to tell it; nothing has been added to the 1814 text, and nothing taken from it. The narration is a synthesized English reading (Piper — Alan) of this text, made for this edition. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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