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A gritty tale of intrigue, betrayal, and the birth of a legendary American friendship.
From the award-winning author of To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis & Clark comes a superb new historical thriller set in the danger and squalor of the eighteenth-century American frontier. In The Fairest Portion of the Globe, Frances Hunter has created a gritty tale of intrigue, betrayal, and the birth of a legendary American friendship.
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The year is 1793. A young French diplomat, Citizen Genet, arrives in America from the bloody streets of Paris, determined to further the cause of revolution—no matter what the cost. Genet and Thomas Jefferson have | |  | | To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis & Clark
History and fiction merge seamlessly in this thrilling historical novel based on one of America's greatest unsolved mysteries. Lewis and Clark's last journey is a classic story of honor, vengeance, and redemption.
st1:place w:st="on">st1:city w:st="on">/st1:city>/st1:place>span style="font-size: x-small;">st1:place w:st="on">st1:city w:st="on">span style="font-family: Arial;">St. Louis/span>/st1:city>/st1:place>span style="font-family: Arial;">, 1809. Three years after the triumphal return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Meriwether Lewis never felt less like a hero. Trapped in a thankless political job, he’s drinking too much and spending money like there’s no tomorrow. When he’s called to a mysterious meeting, Lewis hopes for a new adventure that will tur |
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