Bibliograph

Astoria, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a story of wealth, ambition, and survival, Peter Stark

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Astoria, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a story of wealth, ambition, and survival, Peter Stark

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-351) and index

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Astoria

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

850180680

Responsibility statement

Peter Stark

Sub title

John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a story of wealth, ambition, and survival

Summary

Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a story of wealth, ambition, and survival

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