Eclipse
Book 1

Meriwether Lewis' life after his epic voyage of Western discovery quickly dissolved into chaos and tragedy. Wheeler uses fiction to consider what caused Lewis to fall from hero to pariah in three years. While this is a tale filled with a great deal of pathos, the use of Lewis' fellow voyager William......more

Eclipse is a work of historical fiction about Lewis and Clark. I brought the book on our six-month Missouri River Corps of Rediscovery canoe trip, but didn’t crack it open right away because I’ve heard the Lewis and Clark story so many times that I wasn’t ready to go through it again. Then came the......more

One truly impressive writer! This book is a novel about Lewis and Clark, the explorers. It starts upon their return from 2 years in our then-unsettled west through Lewis' death. It takes place in the early 1800's.....life was really different back then but Mr. Wheeler brings it to life....including......more

This book started out sad, and got sadder throughout until the bitter end. Still, I kept reading it, because the author did such a superb job of portraying the personalities of both Lewis and Clark. Told from alternating first-person perspectives of both men, the gradual physical and mental collapse......more

It wasn't what I expected. This takes place after they return from the great expedition. Seams to drag in some places and skip over some stories that might have been interesting.......more