Why so many Ledyard books recently?
- Bill Gifford, Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer (2007).
- Edward G. Gray, The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler (Yale University Press, 2007).
- James Zug, American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World (Basic Books, 2005).
- See also James Zug, ed., Last Voyage of Captain Cook: The Collected Writings of John Ledyard (National Geographic Adventure Classics, 2005).
A review I haven’t read in JAH compares them.
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[Update 05.03.2014: Broken link to JAH review replaced.]