A fictional re-creation of the Lewis and Clark expedition focuses on George Drouillard, a French and Shawnee hunter, guide, and interpreter, who keeps the mission going in difficult times

This historical novel revolves around three of Robert Peary's and Frederick Cook's real-life expeditions to the Arctic. It is told through the voice of Devlin Stead, a fictional young orphan raised by his aunt and uncle in St. John's, Newfoundland, after his father abandoned him and went to Labrador to minister to the Inuit and his mother committed suicide. Eventually, Devlin sailed from St. John's to New York to become the protégé of Cook and accompanied...

Thirty years after a night drinking rum with Ethan Allen leaves him with a copper plate screwed into his head, Private True Teague Kinneson -- Vermont schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer -- sets out with his young nephew Ticonderoga to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his lusty six-foot-two-inch spinster daughter, fight and trick an army of Spaniards and...

Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.