“I am indeed a very plain man,” John Ledyard wrote from London prior to setting out for St. Petersburg, “but do not think that mountains or oceans shall oppose my passage to glory while I have such friends in remembrance.” John Ledyard travels deeper into Siberia – as Lapérouse sails between Sakhalin and Hokkaidō

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