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ohn Ledyard, a Connecticut
Yankee, was the first
American to explore the
Middle East. Arriving in Egypt in
1788, he was driven by a sense of
adventure and the spirit of the frontier.
Fifteen years earlier, he had dropped
out of Dartmouth College, escaping
down the Connecticut River in a canoe
he hollowed out of a great pine tree
with his own hands.
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Thomas Jefferson, later the recipient of
his descriptive letters, which remain.
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the Middle East.
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mythic conditions he had imagined,
gleaned from works like A Thousand
and One Arabian Nights. Following
the advice of the Venetian consul in
Cairo, he traded in his Western dress
for pantaloons and a turban and trav-
eled along the Nile. He died of a sud-
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and is buried in the sands.
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Making of the Modern Middle
East, Oren — who will appear at a
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at Knollwood Country Club in West
Bloomfield — goes on to examine the
significant involvement of the United
States and its citizens in the nations
once known as "the Orient," includ-
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Longtime Relationship
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