TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gray,Edward G.
TI  - The making of John Ledyard: empire and ambition in the life of an early American traveler 
SN  - 9780300137811 (electronic bk.)
AV  - G226.L5 G73 2007eb
U1  - 910.92B 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Ledyard, John,
KW  - Explorers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Travelers
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Adventurers & Explorers
KW  - Historical
KW  - Hikes & Walks
KW  - Budget
KW  - Special Interest
KW  - Ecotourism
KW  - Parks & Campgrounds
KW  - Reference
KW  - Road Travel
KW  - Adventure
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - მოგზაურობა
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-215) and index
N2  - During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751-1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert Morris, Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others. Ledyard lived and traveleld in remarkable places as well, journeying from the New England backcountry to Tahiti, Hawaii, the American Northwest coast, Alaska, and the Russian far east. In this engaging biography, historian Edward Gray offers not only a full account of Ledyard's eventful life but also an illuminating view of the late eighteenth-century world in which he lived. Ledyard was both a product of empire and an agent in its creation, Gray shows, and through this adventurer's life it is possible to discern the many ways empire shaped the lives of nations, peoples, and individuals in the era of the American Revolution, the world's first modern revolt against empire
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