Download Audiobook Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose in English

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In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson chosen his private secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to steer a voyage up the Missouri River, throughout the forbidding Rockies, and – by the use of the Snake and Columbia rivers – right down to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and his accomplice, Captain William Clark, endured unbelievable hardships and witnessed astounding sights. With nice perseverance, they labored their means into an unexplored West. Once they returned two years later, that they had lengthy since been given up for useless. Undaunted Braveness is supported by a wide range of colourful characters: Jefferson and his imaginative and prescient of the West; Clark, the artist and mapmaker; and Lewis, the enigma, who led brilliantly however thought of the mission a failure. After struggling a number of durations of despair – and regardless of his standing as nationwide hero – Lewis died mysteriously, apparently by his personal hand.