The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
If Ms. Bellows’s book occasionally oversimplifies in the service of conveying a very big picture, her keen sense of story and her appreciation of her individual subjects tell us much that is new, and vividly.
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An articulate, engaging study ... The author obviously has great affection and admiration for her subjects, and she knits together material from a wide range of primary and secondary sources.
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Upbeat ... [Bellows] makes room for fairly forgiving looks at white frontier figures who have received more scrutiny in recent years ... Empathetic yet lacking some up-to-date critical perspective, this is a mixed bag.
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