Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer
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Before Lewis and Clark, Huck Finn or Ishmael came John Ledyard, the first and greatest American Traveler.
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- Hardcover; 331 pages; black-and-white maps and illustrations
- Harcourt; copyright 2007
Made in USA.
Almost single-handedly establishing the archetype of the restless American wanderer that would live on from Ishmael to Huck and Jim to Kerouac, John Ledyard was once celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook's final voyage, he helped pioneer the fur trade on the West Coast. Later, with his friend Thomas Jefferson, he hatched plans for a grand expedition across North America. Two decades before Lewis and Clark, Ledyard set off on the journey himself. This is the story of the man that was once as famous as the Founding Fathers.
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