Brave Companions
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: November 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780671792763
Subjects: Biography: general; History - U.S.; Biography/Autobiography; United States - General; History / General; History - General History; 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.