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...managed to walk through Scandinavia in the dead of winter, the last unknowns were still earthbound. James Zug’s lithe, aptly-named biography, “American Traveler,” delightfully follows the haphazard journeys of the first great American explorer, who sailed with Captain Cook, dined with Thomas Jefferson, and tried to walk around the world...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...managed to walk through Scandinavia in the dead of winter, the last unknowns were still earthbound. James Zug’s lithe, aptly-named biography, “American Traveler,” delightfully follows the haphazard journeys of the first great American explorer, who sailed with Captain Cook, dined with Thomas Jefferson, and tried to walk around the world...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

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Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

Cook’s flaming temper didn’t improve the situation. The captain took a possessive attitude toward the rank farm animals stowed on board. At Moorea in the Pacific, Cook became furious after two goats were stolen, rampaging through a village and burning down 200 huts. Cook’s explosive nature led to a fatal showdown with the Hawaiian people, and Cook was hacked apart for trying to kidnap the king. The crew later recovered “a horrifying package of burnt bones, thighs, calves, skull with one ear attached, arms and hands...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

Cook’s two ships returned to England sans Cook, and Ledyard went back to his garrison. Feeling trapped in the rigid military, Ledyard deserted when his unit was stationed in Long Island for the Revolution. “Bound by the conventional and the ordinary, he would revolt,” Zug writes. Having quickly spent his navy pay, the poor Ledyard wrote a popular memoir of his voyage with Cook in an effort to drum up support among potential donors for a fur-trading expedition. Ledyard stirred up an interested group, but corruption abounded and Ledyard...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

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