Chasing Lewis & Clark Across America: A 21st Century Aviation Adventure
Chasing Lewis & Clark Across America: A 21st Century Aviation Adventure
View a 22-minute selection of images from the book Chasing Lewis & Clark Across USA and another 23 minutes of behind the scenes video. From virgin wilderness to cities, this photographic slide show–set to stirring music–is like a tightly woven tapestry of America. Video portion includes plane’ss construction, performance, take-offs plus project planning and life on the trail.
List Price: $ 24.00
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Not Really What I Thought it Was………….,
The “companion” DVD for “Chasing Lewis & Clark Across America: A 21st Century Aviation Adventure” is merely a hodge-podge of video clips (and stills from the book) that the authors and their son gathered while on thier odyssey. Unfortunately it IS NOT a narrative type documentary. If you are looking for a video that proivides historical information about the Lewis & Clark Trail, look elsewhere – as there is no historical value to be gleaned from this video. For the price, you’d be much better off spending the money on other authors books on Lewis & Clark.
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|Chasing Lewis and Clark Across America DVD,
The DVD is little more than a slide show of the pictures from the Chasing Lewis and Clark book. There is a brief narration on building the plane and some of the flying. At $24 the dvd is over priced. The money is better spent on the book.
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|A Tripod in the Sky,
If you want to visually understand the Lewis and Clark Trail, the book and this video do a better job of showcasing the route across America than any other source. The video is not only beautiful, it also reveals how it was accomplished, from the building of the plane (specially designed for photography) from a kit, to the planning of the journey, and the logistics of their 3 month, 14,000 mile journey by land and and air across America.
Ron Lowery is a master photographer. He was determined to show just exactly where the trail went, and how beautiful it looks from the air. His wife Sue and the kids and dog kept the whole enterprise together by following the plane in their RV, carrying fuel, tools and spare parts. Ron was in the air before dawn most mornings taking pictures in the early morning light. He describes his plane as a “tripod in the sky.”
If you love the book, you will really enjoy getting to know the Lowery family and their partner Mary Walker, the author of the book text, as they travel across the country. One of the treats is seeing the little dachshund Jack chasing grasshoppers and prairie dogs and having the dog experience of a lifetime exploring America. It makes us realize how much fun it must have been to have Seaman the Newfoundland dog along on the original journey.
The music is nice to listen to, and the video is well worth owning. I would recommend that interpretive centers make arrangements to use it as a permanent exhibit. As the author of Lewis and Clark Road Trips, I have traveled the trail extensively. The book and DVD are truly some of the lasting legacies of the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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