CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Quotations -- Introduction -- I A Colonial Childhood -- II On Stage at Dartmouth College -- III Serving Captain Cook with Honor -- IV Seeking Distinction with the Pen Aboard the Resolution -- V Following the Revolution Home -- VI From Author to Fur Trader -- VII Becoming a Traveler in Thomas Jefferson's Paris -- VIII Across the Russian Empire -- IX Despotism and Human Nature in Catherine II's Russia -- X To Africa -- Epilogue: Memories of the Traveler -- Notes -- Index.