Brave Companions
Subtitle: Portraits in History
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall Trade
Published: November 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780131401044
Subjects: World History; History - General History; Biography/Autobiography; General; Reference; Biography; United States
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.