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Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer - Hardcover

Gifford, Bill

 
9780151012183: Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151012180 ISBN 13: 9780151012183
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007

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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 feasible—inspiring 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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BILL GIFFORD attended Dartmouth College; unlike Ledyard, he graduated. His writing has appeared in Outside and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania.



BILL GIFFORD attended Dartmouth College; unlike Ledyard, he graduated. His writing has appeared in Outside and the New York Times Magazine. He is the features editor for Men's Journal and lives in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0151012180
ISBN 13 
9780151012183
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Anzahl der Seiten
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