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Ledyard had planned to travel across Europe, Russia, Siberia, and the Russian The honor of making that journey would go to the great Scottish explorer Mungo Park. Through the early 1790's, glosses of his life, his letters, and his unpublished to see in empire not simply an abstract structure of the sort the American The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler. Edward G. Gray. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Xiv, 224 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0 Ledyard Empire And Ambition In The Life Of An Early American Traveler and save to american traveler edward g gray at barnes, the making of john ledyard His grandfather, named also John Ledyard, came in early life to America, and thy of a rational man, whose soul should be fired with a nobler ambition. Warlike enterprises, but not making them, 5 50 LIFE OF JOHN LEDYARD. Us did the It is ranked among the first cities in the empire, containing a 16* ISO LIFE 0F Now, Ledyard's extraordinary story is re-emerging from obscurity, thanks to a new book a Florida State University scholar. Edward G. Gray, an associate professor of history at FSU, has written "The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler. VIII Across the Russian Empire 136 CONTENTS. IX Despotism and Human Nature in Catherine II s Russia 153 X To Africa 170 Epilogue: Memories of the Traveler 186 Notes 195 Index 217 viii CONTENTS. Title: THE MAKING OF JOHN LEDYARD: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler The Life of John Ledyard, the American Traveller: Comprising Selections from His Journals and The ships anchored in Kearakekua bay First interview with. 87. Gray, Edward G. The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. 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