Astoria: Astor and Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Tale of Ambition and Survival on the Early American Frontier

by Peter Stark

Book Overview

In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062218301
• ISBN13: 9780062218308
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"