The course of empire

Name: The course of empire
ISBN: 9780395924983

Bernard Augustine De Voto

1952·647 pages·Nonfiction

History & Politics Biography

explorer biography memoir

National Book Award (1953) · Nominee

Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto's monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.

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