Author: Gale, Kira
Features:
- Used Book in Good Condition
Number Of Pages: 268
PartNumber: Illustrated
Release Date: 31-05-2006
Details: Product Description Travel planning and history are combined in this informative atlas designed specifically for those who want to follow the route of Lewis and Clark by car. Covering more than800 destinations in 23 states, from the White House to the Pacific Ocean and from the Canadian border to New Orleans, this guide offers a choice of routes for each featured drive, from interstate highways to scenic byways, that follow the actual historic trail. Each group of attractions has descriptive information on one large-format page, with driving directions and full-color maps on the facing page. A list of 573 expedition campsites is arranged by state and county, and each entry is cross-referenced to the journals of Lewis and Clark. All attractions have hours, prices, phone numbers, and websites listed." Review This guide will become a new standard for following Lewis and Clark. I'll keep it within ready reach." --Gary E. Moulton, editor, "Lewis and Clark Journals""This guide will become a new standard for following Lewis and Clark. I'll keep it within ready reach." --Gary E. Moulton, editor, "Lewis and Clark Journals""A guide like this is really perfect...to get people to understanding what's amazing about our country, about our cultures." --Bob Moore, historian for the National Park Service at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, as quoted in "Omaha World Herald""""This guide will become a new standard for following Lewis and Clark. I'll keep it within ready reach." --Gary E. Moulton, editor, "Lewis and Clark Journals"Meritorious Achievement Award 2007 from the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation's "We Proceeded On" magazine"This outstanding guidebook is necessary for any traveler. . . . For all travel collections." "Library Journal"""A guide like this is really perfect . . . to get people to understanding what's amazing about our country, about our cultures." Bob Moore, historian for the National Park Service at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, as quoted in "Omaha World Herald"""This is one book about which it is no joke to say: Don't leave (or stay) at home without it." "Aero: A Publication of the National Aeronautic Association"""Kira Gale truly knows her history. Reference books just do not get any better than this one." "Nebraska History"""This large-format volume combines the best features of a highway atlas and a conventional tour guide." "We Proceeded On"" About the Author Kira Gale is the founder and first president of the Mouth of the Platte Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska, and founder of the Lewis and Clark study group at the Western Historic Trails Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
EAN: 9780964931527
Model: Illustrated
Languages: English
Binding: Paperback
Item Condition: New