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Ledyard, John - The Last Voyage Of Captain Cook / The Collected Writings of John Ledyard
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| Schrijver: | Ledyard, John |
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| Titel: | The Last Voyage Of Captain Cook / The Collected Writings of John Ledyard |
| ISBN: | 9780792293477 |
| Uitgever: | Natl Geographic Society |
| Bijzonderheid: | 2005, 266 pp, paperback, Conditie : Nieuw |
| Prijs: | € 19,95 |
| Meer info | John Ledyard, the man who dreamed of crossing the United States on foot 20 years before Lewis and Clark, who salled with Captain Cook, formed a fur-trading company with John Paul Jones, and explored Russian Siberia at a time when it was a vast blank marked unknown on the map is perhaps the greatest and least-known explorer of all time. After leaving Darmouth in 1772, Ledyard took to the seas and found himself at Gibraltar, where he enlisted then deserted from the British Navy. He reported for duty with Captain Cook in Plymouth, England. With Cook he explored Tasmania, New Zealand, Tahiti, the coast of what would become California and Oregon, Nootka Sound, the Beiring Sea, Unalaska Island, China, and Java, all the while observing and recording in his journals the exotic ports of call and native cultures. On land he walked two-thirds of the way across Russia before being arrested by guards of Catherine the Great and deported to Poland. Returning to England he was engaged by Sir Joseph Banks to explore overland routes from Alexandria to the Niger and it was on this expedition, in Cairo, where Ledyard died of an overdose of vitriolic acid. |
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