![]() ![]() 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. It is a record of life aboard the first ship to sail to the Hawaiian islands and Cook's violent death on a Hawaiian beach. ![]() A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage is the only account of Cook's third voyage to be published by an American. Ledyard's journals, letters, and one published book, collected for the first time in one volume, showcase the uncontainable wanderlust of a unique American spirit. ![]() James Cook, formed a fur trading company with John Paul Jones, and dreamed, with Thomas Jefferson, of walking across the United States 20 years before Lewis and Clark set off on their famous expedition. "Meet John Ledyard, perhaps the greatest little-known explorer in American history. ![]()
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