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“Tommy Spaulding has such a profound gift for storytelling and for collecting wonderful people and experiences.”—Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers Researchers estimate that the average person will influence up to eighty thousand people over the course of their lifetime—or 2.8 people daily. That’s a stadium full of people each of us affects in ways positive or negative, sometimes without our realizing. What if we paid attention to this fact? Would we live differently? Would we lead differently? Would we put down our phones and be more present with the people in front of us?

In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man’s pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan.

La expedición de Lewis y Clark por el río Missouri supuso para los Estados Unidos una gesta equiparable al primer viaje de Cristóbal Colón al continente americano En enero de 1803 el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Thomas Jefferson, solicita al Congreso fondos para enviar una expedición que, partiendo de San Luis, remonte el río Missouri y atraviese el norte del continente americano hasta alcanzar las costas del Pacífico. No se tenía una idea exacta de cuántos kilómetros habría de recorrer la expedición, ya que tendría que cruzar territorios donde el hombre blanco apenas había pisado.