Astoria: Astor and Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire
A Tale of Ambition and Survival on the Early American Frontier
Ranked #39 in Exploration, Ranked #81 in Breakup
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 trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing.
Six years after Lewis and... more
Six years after Lewis and... more
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