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Lewis & Clark (2011)

by Nick Bertozzi(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1596434503 (ISBN13: 9781596434509)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

First Second

review 1: I love history in graphic novel form!This familiar tale of Lewis & Clark as they search to find a water route from the Missouri to the Pacific includes insight into what was definitely a less than glamorous journey. Lewis' depression, Sacajawea’s abusive "husband," the Native American's desire for guns, and reminders of the once touted medicinal properties of mercury add to the grim reality of this epic adventure.
review 2: The note at the beginning of this book helped a lot: what the author want to do was to communicate "the experience of that remarkable expedition". This the book does very well. The graphic novel format made it hard for me to follow some of the history, leaving me to want to read a standard biography or nonfiction book on the topic, but thi... mores was a good way to impart the highlights (or lowlights as they were!) of the expedition. The book starts when the president gives the commission and ends with Lewis' problems afterwards, and his suicide.Strengths: I can see this being used by social studies teachers to recount some of the more interesting portions of the journey or to entice students to read further. It is well-researched and the drawings are comparable to other graphic novels. Weaknesses: As previously stated, understanding the details is sometimes difficult without the support of a lot of text. The one formatting issue I would have changed is that sometimes the drawings are contained on one page, and sometimes it is necessary to read across the entire two page spread to read things in order. Perhaps this is not a struggle for those used to graphic novels, but I had to reread several pages because of the confusion this caused. less

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