The Course Of Empire

by Bernard DeVoto

Overview

Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto’s monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780395924983
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	688
Sales rank:	451,434
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.56(d)

About the Author

Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was a renowned scholar-historian of the American West and one of the country's greatest men of letters.