[PDF.77cb] A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer

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 | #205195 in Books |  Preston, Diana/ Preston, Michael |  2005-04-05 |  2005-04-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x1.00 x6.20l,.90 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great Biography of the Forgotten Buccaneer|By Sean McCoy|William Dampier was a fascinating character. Buccaneer and perhaps a Pirate, Navigator, Scientist, Explorer, Author. He was also one of those people who belie the notion that the brutality of former times is justified because people didn't know any better. He was the embodiment of cosmopolitanism and tolerance in a har|From Publishers Weekly|Dampier's adventures and observations ignited the imagination of a generation, but today his name is largely unknown. This exhaustive biography by Diana Preston (Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy; The Boxer Rebellion; etc.) and husb

Seventeenth-century pirate genius William Dampier sailed around the world three times when crossing the Pacific was a major feat, was the first explorer to visit all five continents, and reached Australia eighty years before Captain Cook. His exploits created a sensation in Europe. Swift and Defoe used his experiences in writing Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Darwin incorporated his concept of "sub-species" into the theory of evolution. Dampier's d...

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