Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War TC_Bestseller This nature encyclopedia for children

This nature encyclopedia for children is the perfect blend of storybook style text with out of this world illustrations which makes it a fantastic nature book for children who are obsessed with wildlife and the natural world

and “poignant” (Vogue)

Featured characters include:

brutal portrait of human nature

and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air

Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War TC_Bestseller This nature encyclopedia for childrenSteve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frmont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John C. Frmont, one of the United Statess leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one