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Landon Y. Jones

Autor von The Essential Lewis and Clark

9+ Werke 430 Mitglieder 11 Rezensionen

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Landon Y. Jones was the managing editor of People magazine for eight years and wrote and edited for Life, Time, Money, and People for thirty-seven years. He is currently a board member of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial

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The Journals of Lewis and Clark {abridged, Bakeless-1964} (1964) — Nachwort, einige Ausgaben566 Exemplare

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Geburtstag
1943
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male
Nationalität
USA
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People Magazine

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Pop culture-in-the-making for its target audience. Not very deep or enduring; a snapshot of an evanescent sociological cohort.
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sfj2 | 1 weitere Rezension | Mar 13, 2022 |
Edited version of the adventure. A little too edited for my taste.
 
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addunn3 | 7 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 22, 2020 |
This is an important part of our American history. Traveling up the Missouri was the "easy" part of the trip, but even more than 200 years later I think it would be quite an adventure. Of course finding the headwaters of the Missouri and a path to the Pacific was a physical challenge with many hardships. This book made the story come alive for me with vivid details of the food and physical demands.
 
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deldevries | 7 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 31, 2016 |
This is a book of "distilled" journals from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806. Since it's extracted, it's very abbreviated and, supposedly, the boring parts are left out. I discovered a few things about the expedition that I did not know: the Missouri country was also populated with white people (trappers), venereal disease existed among the Indians, Clark was never commissioned a "Captain" by Congress, Lewis got shot on the way back...just to name a few. Good reference if you don't want to study the entire voluminous set.… (mehr)
 
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buffalogr | 7 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 25, 2015 |

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