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Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explore (Signed by Author)
by Bill Gifford
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151012180
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012183
- Seller
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About This Item
Harcourt, Inc., 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The condition of this Very Attractive Blue & Gold cover American History Hardback is Very Good with a Very Good jacket. c2007, First Edition, 1st Printing.This is a very solid hardback. Looks very lightly read!!! (There is some light bottom edge wear and a little bottom spine end bump. The book is Very bright and Very clean. The pages are tight, bright & unmarked. No names.Inscribed by author on title page.) The jacket, with price, is very bright and clean with nice edges. Light shelf wear. 331 pages. #18265-124.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Glenn David Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018265
- Title
- Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explore (Signed by Author)
- Author
- Bill Gifford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151012180
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012183
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Orlando
- Date Published
- 2007
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History Books;
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