My new book, This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark, comes out on April 21. I spent five years on it, finding many new documents and a new way to tell this classic story.
My publisher remains Avid Reader Press, a terrific imprint of Simon & Schuster, and their website has all sorts of purchase options. (I always try to buy from my local independent bookstore.)
Here are some early reactions to my book:
- “Original, compelling, and memorable . . . Craig Fehrman sheds new light on a fabled story, and tells it in a way that puts all of us back in a vanished but resonant world.” — Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of And There Was Light
- “Here, at long last, is the Lewis and Clark expedition presented in living technicolor. Employing an ever-shifting point of view that slyly and intriguingly builds upon itself, we see the great historic project as an epic of mutual discovery, in which the explorers and those whose lands are being explored are given equal consideration and dramatic weight. In this way, Fehrman leads us to confront the deeper truth that ‘discovery’ is never a one-way process—its fruits and its legacies, its gifts and its curses, flow in multiple directions.” — Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of The Wide Wide Sea
- “In This Vast Enterprise, Craig Fehrman has composed a magnificent hymn to a wildly colorful and largely unsung cast of fascinating, provocative characters without whom the epic of Lewis and Clark never would have been possible. A sweeping and revelatory story by a writer who is willing not only to acknowledge but also to embrace the complexities, nuances, and richness that have always resided beneath the surface of one of America’s most cherished national myths.” — Kevin Fedarko, New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Park
Craig Fehrman 