In lively prose, journalist Zug tells the riveting story of John Ledyard, the uniquely American pioneer who, among other things, accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage; befriended Jefferson, Lafayette, and Thomas Paine in Paris; and was the first American citizen to see Alaska, Hawaii, and the West Coast of America.
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In lively prose, journalist Zug tells the riveting story of John Ledyard, the uniquely American pioneer who, among other things, accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage; befriended Jefferson, Lafayette, and Thomas Paine in Paris; and was the first American citizen to see Alaska, Hawaii, and the West Coast of America.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. In lively prose, journalist Zug tells the riveting story of John Ledyard, the uniquely American pioneer who, among other things, accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage; befriended Jefferson, Lafayette, and Thomas Paine in Paris; and was the first American citizen to see Alaska, Hawaii, and the West Coast of America.
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VERY GOOD in Very good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Jacket has a very light crimped edge on top of spine. No other signs of wear. Pages are clean.
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Good in good dust jacket. DJ has sticker residue on spine. Signed by author. Name of individual to whom the book was inscribed to has been inked over. Signature is clear. xviii, 286 p. Illustrations. A Note on Sources. Notes. Index. Called a "man of genius" by his close friend Thomas Jefferson, John Ledyard lived, by any standard, a remarkable life. In his thirty-eight years, he accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage; befriended Jefferson, Lafayette, and Tom Paine in Paris; was the first American citizen to see Alaska, Hawaii, and the west coast of America; and set out to find the source of the Niger by traveling from Cairo across the Sahara. His greatest dream, concocted with Jefferson, was to travel alone around the world and cross the American continent from the Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic. Catherine the Great dashed that dream when she had him arrested in deepest Siberia and escorted back to the Polish border. Ledyard wrote the definitive account of Cook's last voyage and his death at the hands of Hawaiian islanders, and formed a company with John Paul Jones that launched the American fur trade in the Pacific Northwest. Before the Revolution, Americans by and large didn't travel great distances, rarely venturing west of the Appalachians. Ledyard, with his boundless enthusiasm and wide-ranging intellect, changed all that. In lively prose, journalist James Zug tells the riveting story of this immensely influential character-a Ben Franklin with wanderlust-a uniquely American pioneer.
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