Sounds like a cool idea.
From Publishers Marketplace:
Whiting Award, Plimpton Prize, NEA grant winner, and author of The Wilding and the forthcoming Red Moon, Benjamin Percy's The Dead Lands, a post-apocalyptic reinvention of Lewis and Clark's epic journey across the West, again to Helen Atsma at Grand Central, in a major deal, by Katherine Fausset of Curtis Brown (world).