This historical work chronicles the lives, adventures, and discoveries of America's great explorer/naturalists--Lewis & Clark, Martha Maxwell, John James Audubo

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The naturalist tradition in American fiction was a product of the tremendous changes wrought in late nineteenth-century America by the development of science an