The Last Voyage of Captain Cook

The Collected Writings of John Ledyard

• Author(s): John Ledyard,
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Pages: 266
• ISBN_10: 0792293479
  ISBN_13: 9780792293477
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers , History / General , History / Expeditions & Discoveries , Travel / Special Interest / Adventure , Travel / Essays & Travelogues ,

Description:... Ledyard's Siberian journals recount a harrowing journey through Russia under the rule of Catherine the Great, while his diary from Alexandria and Cairo provides a brilliant and rare account of Egypt before Napoleon's invasion. Finally, Ledyard's correspondence sheds light on pre-revolutionary Paris and on his friendships with the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, and Sir Joseph Banks. In his short life, John Ledyard traveled farther than any American had before."--Jacket.