{"product_id":"eclipse-a-novel-of-lewis-and-clark-9780312878467","title":"Eclipse: A Novel of Lewis and Clark","description":"\u003cp\u003eLewis and Clark: forever paired for their epochal first crossing of the continent in 1804-1806  darlings of the young republic  and the pride of Thomas Jefferson because they made his dream of a nation between two oceans come true.  Lewis and Clark: two great but very different men.  Plain-spoken William Clark  enjoys the triumphs and acclaim of the expedition  marries his childhood sweetheart  and settles in St. Louis as superintendent of the nations Indian affairs. His black manservant  York  who accompanied the expedition  forces Clark to confront the very nature of slavery and question the society that condoned it.  Meriwether Lewis  a man of fierce courage and brilliant intellect  returns from the Pacific a changed man. Something terrible has happened to him  something insidious  a disease with no name that erodes his health  threatens to destroy his mind--and his honor.  In Eclipse  Richard S. Wheeler has written a tour de force novel  an exploration of triumph and tragedy told in the authentically rendered voices of the two greatest American explorers.  Moreover  Wheeler provides a solution--dark in its ramifications--to one of the greatest mysteries in American history: the terrible and unexplained death of Meriwether Lewis  age thirty-five  in the wilderness of the Natchez Trace of Tennessee in October  1809.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789546086453,"sku":"ByrdShop_031287846X","price":31.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312878467.jpg?v=1784693358","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/eclipse-a-novel-of-lewis-and-clark-9780312878467","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}