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The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis & Clack & Kinneson Expeditions
by Mosher, Howard Frank
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618197214
- ISBN 13
- 9780618197217
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book As New with Very Good Jacket. An imaginative, uproarious, historical travesty; a delightful and imaginative literary work, "Concerning a Vermont Gentleman's Race to the Pacific Against and Exploration of the Western American Continent Coincident to the Expedition of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Handsome volume bound in black tweed, gilt titled, in immaculate condition. Sound and tight binding, square wirh sharp corners. Internals pristine. Frontspiece a map of the journey for the race to the Pacific by Jacques Chazaud. Jacket has small scuff on front near top edge, otherwise Fine. 337 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2003.
Synopsis
In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson -- schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer -- sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis's expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagawea's Shoshone relatives; and outwit True's lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the devil himself. And when a beautiful and mysterious Blackfoot girl named Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories enters the tale, things start to get really interesting. The True Account, which Lawrence Millman calls "part riotous adventure, part book of wonders, and part historical travesty," is the hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking story of a man "whose imagination is unfettered by either convention or fact, whose hopefulness and good nature yield to no force, and whose ways and stays rank second to none in the history of the world."
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013262
- Title
- The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis & Clack & Kinneson Expeditions
- Author
- Mosher, Howard Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618197214
- ISBN 13
- 9780618197217
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE HUMOROUS EXPLORERS VERMONT
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Adventure;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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