Across the Endless River by Thad Carhart

By Thad Carhart

Born in 1805 at the Lewis and Clark day trip, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau is the son of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. he's raised either as William Clark’s ward in St. Louis and by means of his mom and dad one of the villages of the Mandan tribe at the a ways northern reaches of the Missouri river. In 1823 eighteen-year-old Baptiste is invited to pass the Atlantic with the younger Duke Paul of Württemberg, whom he meets at the frontier. in the course of their travels all through Europe, Paul introduces Baptiste to an international he by no means imagined, and Baptiste eventually faces a decision: no matter if to stick in Europe or go back to the wilds of North the United States. As we keep on with this younger guy on his exciting sojourn, this awesome novel resonates with the richness of 3 distinctive cultures, languages, and customs.

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