Author: Bill Gifford
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156033053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Journalist Bill Gifford gives us a life--and follows in the footsteps--of an early American explorer, whose exploits (including walking across all of Russia) and inspired Lewis and Clark.
Ledyard
Author: Bill Gifford
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156033053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Journalist Bill Gifford gives us a life--and follows in the footsteps--of an early American explorer, whose exploits (including walking across all of Russia) and inspired Lewis and Clark.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156033053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Journalist Bill Gifford gives us a life--and follows in the footsteps--of an early American explorer, whose exploits (including walking across all of Russia) and inspired Lewis and Clark.
Ledyard
Author: Bill Gifford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151012183
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151012183
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Pie Is for Sharing
Author: Stephanie Parsley Ledyard
Publisher:
ISBN: 1626725624
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
"You're invited to a glorious Fourth of July picnic where you'll learn all about sharing, the good things along with the bad"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 1626725624
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
"You're invited to a glorious Fourth of July picnic where you'll learn all about sharing, the good things along with the bad"--
Home Is a Window
Author: Stephanie Parsley Ledyard
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823441563
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A family learns what home really means, as they leave one beloved residence and make a new home in another. A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Home can be many things--a window, a doorway, a rug . . . or a hug. At home, everything always feels the same: comfortable and safe. But sometimes things change, and a home must be left behind. Follow a family as they move out of their beloved, familiar house and learn that they can bring everything they love about their old home to the new one, because they still have each other. This heartfelt picture book by Stephanie Parsley Ledyard is richly illustrated by former Pixar animator Chris Sasaki. A BookPage Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Book of the Year
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823441563
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A family learns what home really means, as they leave one beloved residence and make a new home in another. A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Home can be many things--a window, a doorway, a rug . . . or a hug. At home, everything always feels the same: comfortable and safe. But sometimes things change, and a home must be left behind. Follow a family as they move out of their beloved, familiar house and learn that they can bring everything they love about their old home to the new one, because they still have each other. This heartfelt picture book by Stephanie Parsley Ledyard is richly illustrated by former Pixar animator Chris Sasaki. A BookPage Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Book of the Year
The Last Voyage of Captain Cook
Author: John Ledyard
Publisher: National Geographic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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. Finally, Ledyard's correspondence sheds light on pre-revolutionary Paris and on his friendships with the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, and Sir Joseph Banks. In his short life, John Ledyard traveled farther than any American had before."--Jacket.
Publisher: National Geographic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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. Finally, Ledyard's correspondence sheds light on pre-revolutionary Paris and on his friendships with the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, and Sir Joseph Banks. In his short life, John Ledyard traveled farther than any American had before."--Jacket.
The Making of John Ledyard
Author: Edward G. Gray
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300137818
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751–1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert Morris, Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others. Ledyard lived and traveled in remarkable places as well, journeying from the New England backcountry to Tahiti, Hawaii, the American Northwest coast, Alaska, and the Russian Far East. In this engaging biography, the historian Edward Gray offers not only a full account of Ledyard’s eventful life but also an illuminating view of the late eighteenth-century world in which he lived. Ledyard was both a product of empire and an agent in its creation, Gray shows, and through this adventurer’s life it is possible to discern the many ways empire shaped the lives of nations, peoples, and individuals in the era of the American Revolution, the world’s first modern revolt against empire.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300137818
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751–1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert Morris, Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others. Ledyard lived and traveled in remarkable places as well, journeying from the New England backcountry to Tahiti, Hawaii, the American Northwest coast, Alaska, and the Russian Far East. In this engaging biography, the historian Edward Gray offers not only a full account of Ledyard’s eventful life but also an illuminating view of the late eighteenth-century world in which he lived. Ledyard was both a product of empire and an agent in its creation, Gray shows, and through this adventurer’s life it is possible to discern the many ways empire shaped the lives of nations, peoples, and individuals in the era of the American Revolution, the world’s first modern revolt against empire.
Ledyard and Gales Ferry
Author: Kit Foster
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738535593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Ledyard, Connecticut, is located along the east bank of the Thames River. The town was named for Colonel William Ledyard, who commanded Colonial forces in the Battle of Groton Heights in September 1781. The town's western village of Gales Ferry was the location of a fort established by Commodore Stephen Decatur during the War of 1812. The images in Ledyard and Gales Ferry provide a nostalgic glimpse of the shared history of these two communities. Included are special events like the Harvard-Yale Regatta, the longest-running intercollegiate athletic event in the nation, and local icons such as the Great Oak, once the second-largest tree in Connecticut, under whose branches native tribes are said to have held their councils.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738535593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Ledyard, Connecticut, is located along the east bank of the Thames River. The town was named for Colonel William Ledyard, who commanded Colonial forces in the Battle of Groton Heights in September 1781. The town's western village of Gales Ferry was the location of a fort established by Commodore Stephen Decatur during the War of 1812. The images in Ledyard and Gales Ferry provide a nostalgic glimpse of the shared history of these two communities. Included are special events like the Harvard-Yale Regatta, the longest-running intercollegiate athletic event in the nation, and local icons such as the Great Oak, once the second-largest tree in Connecticut, under whose branches native tribes are said to have held their councils.
Ironclad Captain
Author: Jay Slagle
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385503
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
At the centre of this book are the private letters written by Phelps which are set in context by the author, through the use of published documents, memoirs, and scholary histories of the navy. The result is a small history of the US navy and its officer corps for a third of the 19th century.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385503
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
At the centre of this book are the private letters written by Phelps which are set in context by the author, through the use of published documents, memoirs, and scholary histories of the navy. The result is a small history of the US navy and its officer corps for a third of the 19th century.
Documents of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Author: C. Bríd Nicholson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440854564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Through its extensive use of primary source materials and invaluable contextual notes, this book offers a documented history of one of the most famous adventures in early American history: the Lewis and Clark expedition. This book is the first to situate the Lewis and Clark expedition within the political and scientific ambitions of Thomas Jefferson. It spans a forty-year period in American history, from 1783–1832, covering Jefferson's early interest in trying to organize an expedition to explore the American West through the difficult negotiations of the Louisiana Purchase, the formation of the "Corps of Discovery," the expedition's incredible journey into the unknown, and its aftermath. The story of the expedition is told not just through the journals and letters of Lewis and Clark, but also through the firsthand accounts of the expedition's other members, which included Sacagawea, a Native American woman, and York, an African American slave. The book features more than 100 primary source documents, including letters to and from Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, and others as the expedition was being organized; diary excerpts during the expedition; and, uniquely, letters documenting the lives of Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea, and York after the expedition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440854564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Through its extensive use of primary source materials and invaluable contextual notes, this book offers a documented history of one of the most famous adventures in early American history: the Lewis and Clark expedition. This book is the first to situate the Lewis and Clark expedition within the political and scientific ambitions of Thomas Jefferson. It spans a forty-year period in American history, from 1783–1832, covering Jefferson's early interest in trying to organize an expedition to explore the American West through the difficult negotiations of the Louisiana Purchase, the formation of the "Corps of Discovery," the expedition's incredible journey into the unknown, and its aftermath. The story of the expedition is told not just through the journals and letters of Lewis and Clark, but also through the firsthand accounts of the expedition's other members, which included Sacagawea, a Native American woman, and York, an African American slave. The book features more than 100 primary source documents, including letters to and from Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, and others as the expedition was being organized; diary excerpts during the expedition; and, uniquely, letters documenting the lives of Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea, and York after the expedition.
Guernsey Breeders' Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description