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 means of the Snake and Columbia rivers – right down to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and his accomplice, Captain William Clark, endured unimaginable hardships and witnessed astounding sights. With nice perseverance, they labored their approach into an unexplored West. After they returned two years later, they’d lengthy since been given up for useless. Undaunted Braveness is supported by quite a lot 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-about the mission a failure. After struggling a number of durations of melancholy – and regardless of his standing as nationwide hero – Lewis died mysteriously, apparently by his personal hand.