Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer
by Gifford, Bill
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0151012180
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012183
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For decades after his death in 1789, John Ledyard was celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook’s final voyage, he walked across nearly all of Russia and suggested to his friend Thomas Jefferson that traversing the American continent was feasibleinspiring the Lewis and Clark expedition. When he died he was preparing to venture into Africa. Once as famous as the Founding Fathers whom he had befriended and beguiled, the American traveler,” as Ledyard was called, fell into obscurity over the years, reduced to becoming a footnoted reference in Moby Dick . Bill Gifford reenacted Ledyard’s 1773 escape from Dartmouth College in a canoe and followed Ledyard’s trail down the length of the Lena River in Siberia. In Ledyard he reveals the man in the legend, bringing back an American original and giving us a story that until now has not been fully told.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- s00033685
- Title
- Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer
- Author
- Gifford, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151012180
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012183
- Publisher
- Harcourt Inc
- Place of Publication
- Orlando
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Exploration, America, Manifest Destiny, 18th Century
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