A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer by Diana Preston and Michael Preston

Diana Preston and Michael Preston

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Walker & Co, New York, 2004

0802714250 / 9780802714251

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Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Black mark on top foredge - perhaps a remnant mark. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective covering. Interior and binding are also very good. William Dampier (1651-1715) was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor, ill-educated, and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research. Dampier performed many extraordinary achievements in his lifetime: he mapped the winds and the currents of the world's oceans for the first time; led the first recorded party of Englishmen to set foot on Australia - 80 years before Cook; and was an enthusiastic naturalist - following his visit to the Galapagos Islands, he wrote about their wildlife 150 years before Darwin, who drew on Dampier's notes in his own work. He was possibly the first travel writer: A New Voyage Around the World was embraced by the literary world and became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1697 - it was said to have influenced the novels of Swift and Defoe. This biography examines Dampier the man - full of contradictions - and analyses why he, who achieved so much, "blew it" later in life, declining into scandal, controversy, failure and even farce. A unique man ahead of his time, he spent much of his life among pirates yet managed to preserve what Coleridge called his "exquisite refinement of mind".…

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Titre
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer by Diana Preston and Michael Preston
Auteur
Diana Preston and Michael Preston
Éditeur
Walker & Co, New York
Année de publication
2004
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Very Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0802714250
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780802714251
Édition
1st Edition
Poids de l'article
0,8 kilogramme
Dimensions
24.5 x 16.5 x 4 cm
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Subjects - Biography & Memoir - Men Biography, Subjects - Shipwrecks & Maritime, Subjects - Western Australian History - WA Wide

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