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001 2006017064
003 DLC
005 20070518114406.0
008 060524s2007 fluab b 001 0beng
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020 $a0151012180
020 $a9780151012183
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm69671889
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050 00 $aG226.L5$bG55 2007
082 00 $a910.92$aB$222
100 1 $aGifford, Bill.
245 10 $aLedyard :$bin search of the first American explorer /$cBill Gifford.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aOrlando, Fla. :$bHarcourt,$cc2007.
300 $axix, 331 p. :$bill., maps ;$c22 cm.
520 $a"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. Journalist Gifford reenacted Ledyard's 1772 escape from Dartmouth College in a canoe and followed his trail down the length of the Lena River in Siberia. Here 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.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-318) and index.
600 10 $aLedyard, John,$d1751-1789.
650 0 $aExplorers$zUnited States$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006017064.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006017064-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006017064-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0711/2006017064-s.html