[LouAvul]

I've almost finished reading "The Journals of Lewis and Clark"

Is it well written? I.e., is it a good book?

If yes, author and publisher please. Thanx.

[Covenantor]

"The Journals of Lewis and Clark"

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Abridged by Anthony Brandt

National Geographic Adventure Classics, 2002
I found it in a remaindered stack, probably at Borders, for $7.99

As to how well it is written keep in mind that these are their own words as explorers tasked to survey the country. The abridgment skips the more 'scientific' descriptions of flora and fauna which to some might be tedious.

It is a day by day accounting of where and how far they traveled and the travails along the way. Tough men for those times and I suspect for any time to endure the journey into the essentially unknown west.

If historical journals draw you then by all means grab it. But it is no thriller by current standards.