| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.2

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Book Review

On the River with Lewis and Clark. By Verne Huser. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2004. xiv + 205 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $40.00, paper $17.95.
With more than 45 years experience navigating the rivers of North America by raft, canoe, and even tugboat, professional river guide Verne Huser has intimate knowledge of the opportunities and challenges rivers presented Lewis and Clark as they traversed relatively unexplored stretches of the continent, 1803–1806. On the premise that "Knowledge of the rivers, of their basic functions and common characteristics, and of the most fundamental means of negotiating them should help all readers of the journals to better understanding of the Lewis and Clark expedition" (p. x), Huser offers On the River with Lewis and Clark as a work "complementary to the journals," from the perspective of an expert who hass actually paddled, rowed, and motored many of the waterways Lewis and Clark traveled.	1
The subject is an important one. As Huser points out, about 85 percent of the miles Lewis and Clark traveled were river miles.	. . .

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