Sacajawea
Why we picked it
Told in alternating chapters from Sacajawea's own voice and William Clark's, drawing on Clark's actual diaries, this novel makes the Lewis and Clark Expedition immediate, personal, and richly complex in a way that no single perspective can achieve.
Our review
Captured by her enemies, married to a foreigner, and a mother at sixteen, Sacajawea lived a life of turmoil and change before becoming a figure of American history. This powerful novel tells her extraordinary story in the alternating voices of Sacajawea and William Clark, with selections from Clark's original diaries, bringing the Lewis and Clark Expedition alive from two perspectives at once.
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Captured by her enemies, married to a foreigner, and a mother at age sixteen, Sacajawea lived a life of turmoil and change. Then, in 1804, the mysterious young Shoshone woman met Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Acting as interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, Sacajawea bravely embarked on an epic journey that altered history forever. Hear her extraordinary story, in the voices of Sacajawea and William Clark in alternating chapters, with selections from Clarks original diaries. Includes a map of Lewis and Clarks trail and an authors note.
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