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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 crossing of the Rockies in the snow, the descent of the Columbia past its falls and rapids, the first sight of the Pacific Ocean, the raising of Fort Clatsop, and the great whale on the coast, 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, the end of Book I (Chapters XVI–XVII) and Book II, Chapters I–V complete: History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark (1814) — over the mountains and down to the sea: the crossing of the Rockies in the snow, the descent of the Columbia, the first sight of the Pacific, the winter at Fort Clatsop, and the whale on the coast.
- About 6 hours 46 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 Track map of the whole route, the map of the Columbia’s mouth, 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 An honest word, printed on this book’s face as it is in its disclaimer: Lewis died in 1809 with the journals unpublished, and Clark gave the manuscripts to Nicholas Biddle, who worked them, with Clark at hand to answer his questions, into the continuous narrative published in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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