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9780813952185 Academic Inspection Copy

The Scientist Turned Spy

Andre Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793
  • ISBN-13: 9780813952185
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
  • By Patrick Spero
  • Price: AUD $89.99
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  • Local release date: 16/12/2024
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 280 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History [HB]History of the Americas [HBJK]
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The incredible story of an explorer caught up in international intrigue at the dawn of US history AndrE Michaux was the most famous scientific explorer of North America before Lewis and Clark. His work took him from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay, and it is likely that no contemporary of his had seen as much of the continent. But there is more to his story. During his decade-long American sojourn, Michaux found himself thrust into the middle of a vast international conspiracy. In 1793, the revolutionary French government conscripted him into its service as a secret agent and tasked him with organizing American frontiersmen to attack Spanish-controlled New Orleans, seize control of Louisiana, and establish an independent republic in the American West. New evidence also strongly implicates Thomas Jefferson in this plot. Drawing on sources buried in the vault of the American Philosophical Society, Patrick Spero offers a bona fide page-turner that sheds new light on an incipient American political climate that fostered reckless diplomatic ventures under the guise of scientific exploration, revealing the air of uncertainty and opportunity that pervaded the early republic.
Patrick Spero is Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society and the author of Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776.
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