National Geographic Adventure Classics: The Last Voyage of Captain Cook
In his short life, John Ledyard saw more of the world than any other person of the eighteenth century. He sailed the seven seas and set foot on six continents. He sailed with Captain Cook, ran a fur-trading company with John Paul Jones, and crossed Russian Siberia when it was still a vast expanse of white marked ''unknown'' on a map. With his capacious intellect, boundless imagination, and sparkling, incisive prose, he made the traveling life seem glamorous. His tales of adventure captivated contemporaries like Thomas Jefferson and earned him the nickname ''the American Marco Polo.'' These never-before-collected writings of this legendary explorer are the only in print and a perfect addition to the National Geographic Adventure Classics library.
