David J Peck

Or Perish in the Attempt

The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

David J. Peck is a retired physician and a popular, nationally recognized speaker on the medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He and his wife live in San Diego. Dr Peck can be contacted through his website @ .¿ Moira Ambrose (1939–2009) wrote more than thirty books with her husband, Steven E. Ambrose, including several bestsellers.¿R. F. "Bob" Morgan is a Montana artist and cofounder of the Western Rendezvous of Art, which brings collectors and artists from around the country to Helena, Montana.¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780803235113
• ISBN-10: 0803235119
• Artikelnr.: 32738270

Autorenporträt

David J. Peck is a retired physician and a popular, nationally recognized speaker on the medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He and his wife live in San Diego. Dr Peck can be contacted through his website @ lewisandclarkmedicine.com.  Moira Ambrose (1939–2009) wrote more than thirty books with her husband, Steven E. Ambrose, including several bestsellers. R. F. “Bob” Morgan is a Montana artist and cofounder of the Western Rendezvous of Art, which brings collectors and artists from around the country to Helena, Montana. 

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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Politics and Passion: The Exploration of the American
Wilderness
Chapter 2 - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark: The Right Stuff of 1803
Chapter 3 - Just Doing the Best We Can: Development of American Medicine
1620-1803
Chapter 4 - Into the Starting Blocks: The Expedition Prepares
Chapter 5 - Misqutrs on the Ohio: The Trip Gets Underway
Chapter 6 - Snakes in the Grass & Bugs in the River: Rattlers and Diarrhea
on the Missouri
Chapter 7 - The Sun and Dying Young: A Lucky Streak Ends
Chapter 8 - They Should Have Danced All Night: "Louis Veneri" Joins the
Corps
Chapter 9 - Cold Toes and a Baby Boy: Winter with the Mandans
Chapter 10 - Wild Times in Old Montana: Act One: May-June 1805
Chapter 11 - Wild Times in Old Montana: Act Two: May-July 1805
Chapter 12 - From a Torrent to a Trickle: To the Headwaters of the Missouri
Chapter 13 - No Place for Mockersins: Over the Bitterroots
Chapter 14 - A Winter of Pore Elk and Flees: The Pacific 1805-1806
Chapter 15 - A Clash of Cultures: March-April 1806
Chapter 16 - Frontier Doctor and Medical Diplomats: Great Challenges in
Idaho
Chapter 17 - Wild Times in Old Montana: Act Three: June-August 1806
Chapter 18 - Near Disaster and Then . . . : Back Home: August and September
1806
Chapter 19 - Ghosts of Explorations Past: Fates of the Corps of Discovery
Chapter 20 - Fiddles and Friendships: The Sinews of Success
Appendix One - Riddles of Nature: The World's Medical Expedition
Appendix Two - Medicines of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Helpful
Pharmacy Terms, Lewis & Clark's Medicine Chest, Instruments and Other
Supplies
Notes
Bibliography
Index