Citizen Explorer The Life of Zebulon Pike

Name: Citizen Explorer The Life of Zebulon Pike
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ISBN: 9780199768721

ISBN-10: 0199768722

ISBN-13: 9780199768721

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jared Orsi

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It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his republic.InCitizen Explorer,historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Born in 1779, Pike joined the army and served in frontier posts in the Ohio River valley before embarking on a series of astonishing expeditions. He sought the headwaters of the…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.25" long x 1.24" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English