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The Making of John Ledyard : Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300137811
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Making of John LedyardDDC classification:
  • B
LOC classification:
  • G226.L5G73 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Quotations -- Introduction -- I A Colonial Childhood -- II On Stage at Dartmouth College -- III Serving Captain Cook with Honor -- IV Seeking Distinction with the Pen Aboard the Resolution -- V Following the Revolution Home -- VI From Author to Fur Trader -- VII Becoming a Traveler in Thomas Jefferson's Paris -- VIII Across the Russian Empire -- IX Despotism and Human Nature in Catherine II's Russia -- X To Africa -- Epilogue: Memories of the Traveler -- Notes -- Index.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Quotations -- Introduction -- I A Colonial Childhood -- II On Stage at Dartmouth College -- III Serving Captain Cook with Honor -- IV Seeking Distinction with the Pen Aboard the Resolution -- V Following the Revolution Home -- VI From Author to Fur Trader -- VII Becoming a Traveler in Thomas Jefferson's Paris -- VIII Across the Russian Empire -- IX Despotism and Human Nature in Catherine II's Russia -- X To Africa -- Epilogue: Memories of the Traveler -- Notes -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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