{"title":"Exploração E Descobrimentos","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-forgotten-expedition-1804-1805","title":"The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the same time that he charged Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the great Northwest, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned William Dunbar and George Hunter to make a parallel journey through the southern unmapped regions of the Louisiana Purchase. From October 16, 1804, to January 26, 1805, Dunbar and Hunter, both renowned scientists, made their way through what is now northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas, ascending the Ouachita River and investigating the natural curiosity called \"the hot springs.\" The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805 represents the first time that their daily journals-which describe the flora and fauna, geology, weather, and native peoples they encountered along the way-appear in a single volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe team of the \"Grand Expedition,\" as it was optimistically named, was the first to send its findings on the newly annexed territory to the president, who received Dunbar and Hunter's detailed journals with pleasure. They include descriptions of flora and fauna, geology, weather, landscapes, and native peoples and European settlers, as well as astronomical and navigational records that allowed the first accurate English maps of the region and its waterways to be produced. Their scientific experiments conducted at the hot springs may be among the first to discover a microscopic phenomena still under research today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExtensively annotated and carefully researched, The Forgotten Expedition completes the picture of the Louisiana Purchase presented through the journals of explorers Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, and Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis. 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Tom Chaffin's biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and illuminates his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Frémont stood at the center of the vast federal project of western exploration and conquest. His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public's imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation's destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Frémont was more than an explorer. Chaffin's dramatic narrative includes Frémont's varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Frémont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Chaffin is Research Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he also directs and edits the series Correspondence of James K. Polk. Among his numerous publications, he has written articles for the New York Times, Harper's, and Time, and his books include Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah and Giant's Causeway: Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52640427377007,"sku":"9780806144740","price":233.58,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0806144742.jpg?v=1770392427"},{"product_id":"the-race-to-the-new-world","title":"The Race to the New World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Race to the New World\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52640842711407,"sku":"9780230341654","price":210.39,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0230341659.jpg?v=1770401112"},{"product_id":"beyond-the-cross-timbers","title":"Beyond the Cross Timbers","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed in his own time, Captain Randolph B. Marcy-trailblazer, geographer, fighter in the Mexican War, American Indian authority, and author-traveled as extensively as any other nineteenth-century explorer. Yet, Marcy has not achieved the fame of Lewis and Clark, Pike, Long, and Fremont, although he was the first to trace the Red River, in 1852.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcy conducted five major expeditions through the West and drafted the first reasonably accurate maps of the Southwest. His advice to his military superiors led to the establishment of the chain of \"Cross Timbers\" forts from Fort Smith to New Mexico, including Forts Arbuckle, Belknap, and Sill, and the location of a number of Indian reservations. During the Mormon War Marcy led a dramatic march over 634 miles of snow-covered mountains to New Mexico to obtain relief supplies for isolated Fort Bridger, Wyoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the Cross Timbers: The Travels of Randolph B. Marcy  brings Marcy's adventures to light, tracing his fifty years of army service and his epic journeys of exploration. W. Eugene Hollon utilized Marcy's books, official Washington files, and unpublished personal correspondence of the Marcy and McClellan families to present a graphic picture of nineteenth-century army life at lonely frontier posts, and the trials faced by the band of intrepid wives who followed their soldier husbands into the wilderness. Hollon also includes the story of the wooing and winning of Mary Ellen Marcy by young Lieutenant George B. McClellan, who was to become his father-in-law's commanding officer during the Civil War and Lincoln's opponent in the 1864 election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW. Eugene Hollon was Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and Ohio Regents Professor of History, University of Toledo. 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