Chasing Lewis & Clark Across America

Chasing Lewis & Clark Across America BY RON LOWERY AND MARY WALKER (WINDSOCK MEDIA, $45)

The book, subtitled A 21st Century Aviation Adventure, re-creates the legendary journey of Lewis and Clark across the Louisiana Purchase expanse and beyond. Photography and prose unite to illuminate the American geography and culture along the Missouri River all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

Photographer Ron Lowery and writer Mary Walker fuse their talents to record America the beautiful. Though Lewis and Clark possessed no plane nor charted map, the two-person crew aboard Cloud Chaser, Lowery's handcrafted plane built especially for photography and exploring, captures a stunning modern version of the explorers' adventure.

Lowery and Walker show the country not as a mere landmass nor a reservoir of cultures. Instead, we see it as a living thing, with curving rivers for veins and the people themselves representing a steady heartbeat. Join Lowery and Walker in "a green canoe" in the sky, and experience the journey of Lewis and Clark. BLAKE GRIGGS

Copyright Southern Progress Corporation Feb 2005
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