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In this guidebook, Daniel Botkin retraces the Lewis and Clark voyage of discovery along the Missouri, inviting his readers to do the same--for, he writes,
In this information age, we rarely obtain the information we need most about ourselves, our civilization, and our surroundings. Over and over again I have discovered that Lewis and Clark, two centuries ago, put a yardstick or sextant to things that we no longer seek to pace or measure.
Along the way he visits the great prehistoric Indian mounds of Illinois, near the expedition's starting point; the Platte River, "one of the few major rivers of America that has not been greatly altered by channelization and dams; Yellowstone National Park; and national wildlife refuges in Nebraska, Montana, and other Western states. Botkin's guidebook suffers at times from encyclopedic dryness, but it remains a useful glove-compartment companion for anyone seeking to follow Lewis and Clark's passage. --Gregory McNamee
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