The Last Voyage Of Captain Cook: The Collected Writings of John Ledyard [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Ledyard, John

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ISBN 10: 0792293479 ISBN 13: 9780792293477

Casa editrice: National Geographic, 2005

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A collection of selected letters and excerpts from journals by the eighteenth-century explorer offers an eyewitness account of the final voyage of Captain Cook, including a firsthand chronicle of his murder, as well as a narrative of an early odyssey across the unmapped wilderness of Russian Siberia. Original.

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John Ledyard (1751-1789), a native of Groton Connecticut, left Dartmouth College at age 19 to travel to England and eventually sign on with James Cook's final voyage in 1775. He returned to Europe to form fast friendships with Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, and Thomas Paine. He explored Siberia, becoming the first American to do so, and was chosen to lead an expedition to find the source of the Nile. It was on this expedition, in 1789 in which Ledyard died in Cairo at age 38. John Ledyard was the original Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1786 Thomas Jefferson sent him to explore the American West. He was the first white American to see the Northwest coast of America, Alaska and Hawaii, as well as the first to visit Siberia. He wrote the only known account of the death of Captain James Cook that blamed his death not on the Hawaiians but on Cook himself. William F. Buckley wrote in the New York Times Book Review in 2000, that Ledyard's writing was "loaded with moral and institutional wisdom... the reader is caught up at once in the narrative and the young seamen's stylistic finesse."

James Zug is the author of Squash: A History of the Game (Scribner, 2003). In March 2005 he will publish Great With Desire, the first full-length biography of John Ledyard in nearly 200 years. Zug lives in Washington DC with his wife and daughter.

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• Editore: National Geographic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0792293479
• ISBN 13: 9780792293477
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Redattore: Zug James