Ledyard In Search of the First American Explorer

Name: Ledyard In Search of the First American Explorer
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ISBN: 9780151012183

ISBN-10: 0151012180

ISBN-13: 9780151012183

Edition: 2007

Authors: Bill Gifford

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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 footshy;noted reference in Moby Dick. nbsp; Bill Gifford reenacted Ledyard’s 1772 escape from Dartmouth College in a canoe…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 2/5/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

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 Journaland lives in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania.



Introduction: Damned to Fame •



• Landlocked The Squire’s Revenge • Shut Out and Set Free •



• Voyages Seven Years’ Ramble • Resolution and Discovery • Noble Savage • Northwest Passage • Fatal Paradise •



• The Enterprize A Simple Plan • The Sport of Fortune • Man of Genius • Honest Fame •



• Kicked Round the World Aurora Borealis • Walking to Yakutsk • The Icebox • Prisoner without a Crime •



• Passage to Glory The Saturday’s Club • Almost Universal Blindness • Afterlife •


Epilogue: The River •


Acknowledgments •


Notes •


Bibliography and Further Reading •


Index •