This Vast Land

Ambrose, Stephen E. This Vast Land. 1st Edition. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003. ISBN: 0-689-86448-5. Hardcover $17.95.

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Annotation: A fictional journal kept by young George Shannon as he joins the adventure of the lifetime, travelling with Lewis and Clark on the mission sanctioned by President Jefferson. 

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"Aug. 30, 1803: 

This day capt. Lewis said I could accompany him and his party on their trip to St. Louis and then up the Missouri River. It has taken me six weeks to presuade him...

Oct. 20, 1803:

I killed my first deer today, it was fit and fine...[they] annointed me with the deer's blood, smearing it on my forehead...this is always done for a man's first deer..."

Just the opening months alone will prove to change George Shannon's life forever as he follows Lewis and Clark across the American wilderness of This Vast Land. 

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