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The life of John Ledyard, the American traveller : comprising selections from his journals and correspondence / by Jared Sparks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages around the world.
- Ledyard, John, 1751-1789.
- Ledyard, John.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Knowledge--Asia.
- Melville, Herman.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 325 p. )
- Other Title:
- Life of John Ledyard, the American traveller
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Published by Hilliard and Brown, 1828.
- Notes:
- "Ledyard, with whom Melville's uncle, Capt. John D. Wolf was associated, visited the Tartars. Ledyard's travels to Siberia and Tartary by sledge, rather than the account of Marco Polo, were in Melville's mind in the chapter 'Dreams' in Mardi." Melville's Oriends, p. 179.
- HIS-496.
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Sabin no. 88991.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG10178361-B
- OCLC:
- 367894862
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