“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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/ intro/outro music by aldous ichnite — “You'll Have a Plan Before You Try to Get Your Horse on the Trailer” and “Our Entire Bodies Have Always Been the Most Powerful Form of Visual Expression”
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