Brave Companions
Subtitle: Portraits in History
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: June 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780517104170
Subjects: Non-Classifiable; Sale Books; Nonfiction - General
First sentence: ON A MORNING in May 1804, there arrived at the White House by Baltimore coach, and in the company of the painter Charles Willson Peale, a visitor from abroad: an aristocratic young German, age thirty-four, a bachelor, occupation scientist and explorer.