I Should be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark
- ISBN-10
- 0142003719
- ISBN-13
- 9780142003718
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 419
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Author
- Brian Hall
Description
A fictionalized account based on the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Ocean seeks to convey what was happening in the minds of the explorers and to bring life to the collision of white and Native American cultures of the period. Reprint.
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