Brave Companions
Subtitle: Portraits in History
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc
Published: June 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780844672656
Subjects: Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
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.