Eclipse Book

A tour de force novel that takes on one of the most famous mysteries of American historyLewis and Clark: forever paired for their epochal first crossing of the continent in 1804-1806, 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.lain-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 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. A disease with no name erodes his health and threatens to destroy his mindand his honor.In Eclipse, Richard S. Wheeler has written an exploration of triumph and tragedy told in the authentically rendered voices of the two greatest American explorers.Moreover, Wheeler provides a solutiondark in its ramifications, stinging in its potential for truthto the greatest mystery in American history: the terrible and unexplained death of Meriwether Lewis in the wilderness of the Natchez Trace of Tennessee in October, 1809.Read More