To the Roots – Lewis & Clark Podcast

On the mythical Northwest Passage. / 60° 20′ 16″ N, 151° 52′ 30″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | linktree / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro music by  aldous ichnite  — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” and “Our Entire Bodies Have Always Been the Most Po...

If the Age of Columbus gave way to the Age of Cook – it coincided with the Age of Revolutions, though those on Resolution or Discovery couldn’t quite know all that. / 44° 46′ 20.41″ N, 124° 4′ 33.42″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | linktree / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro music by  ald...

“It is certainly bad in theory to suppose the seasons can triumph over the efforts of an honest man.” Ledyard meets Joseph Billings on the other side of the world. / 57° 3′ 12″ N, 135° 20′ 5″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | linktree / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro music by  aldous ichn...

Lapérouse heads down to Monterrey as we trace a brief overview of Spain in the Americas to the end of the eighteenth-century. / 36°36'14.4"N 121°54'42.1"W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | linktree / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro music by  aldous ichnite  — “You'll Have a Plan Before You T...

On Nootka Sound, John Meares, Maquinna, Robert Gray, Vancouver, William Broughton and Alexander Mackenzie. / 49° 41′ 0″ N, 126° 33′ 0″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | linktree / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro music by  aldous ichnite  — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Hor...

“We were seamen in a burning climate limited to one bottle of water a day. The trees which crowded the mountains and the verdure of the banana plants, with which native huts were surrounded, produced inexpressible charms to our senses. But the sea beat upon the coast with such violence as to keen us in the condition of Tantulus — to desire and devour with our eyes that which we could not reach.” L...

“I am indeed a very plain man,” John Ledyard wrote from London prior to setting out for St. Petersburg, “but do not think that mountains or oceans shall oppose my passage to glory while I have such friends in remembrance.” John Ledyard travels deeper into Siberia – as Lapérouse sails between Sakhalin and Hokkaidō / 52° 17′ 0″ N, 104° 17′ 0″ E / sources and transcript of this episode at our website...

/ 41° 20.754′ N, 72° 2.016′ W. / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | linktree / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro music by  aldous ichnite  — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” and “Our Entire Bodies Have Always Been the Most Powerful Form of Visual Expression” /...

The start of a long journey. This is its own Mile Marker, the Introduction, the Preface, the Preamble, the Mission Statement, rolled into one. / 38° 45′ 5″ N, 77° 28′ 35″ W / sources and transcript of this episode at our website / @gototheroots: instagram | bluesky | linktree / support the podcast: patreon | ko-fi | subscribe to the substack / intro/outro music by  aldous ichnite  — “You'll Have a...