Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer by Bill Gifford

Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer

Bill Gifford

352 pages 2007

2 editions

nonfiction history travel informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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