num_pages: 688
description: Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto’s monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.
language: English
title: The Course Of Empire
titlecomplete: The Course Of Empire
genres: American, Westerns, Nonfiction, American History, History
ratings_count: 181
series: Trilogy of the West
awards: awardedAt: -536428800000
name: National Book Award
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Harper Perennial