Name: A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier - Explorer, Naturalist and Buccaneer. Diana & Michael Preston (en Inglés)
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portada A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier - Explorer, Naturalist and Buccaneer. Diana & Michael Preston (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Autor

Diana Preston

Editorial

Corgi Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

511

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780552772105

Categorías

Europa
Biografías de aventureros y exploradores
Historia de europa

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier - Explorer, Naturalist and Buccaneer. Diana & Michael Preston (en Inglés)

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William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research. Dampier was the first to map the winds and currents of the world's oceans; led the first recorded party of Englishmen to set foot on Australia - 80 years before Cook; wrote about Galapagos wildlife 150 years before Darwin, who drew on Dampier's notes in his own work; was the first travel writer: A NEW VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD was instant bestseller when it was published in 1697 - said to have influenced the novels of Swift and Defoe. A man full of contradictions: he who achieved so much 'blew it' later in life, declining into scandal, failure and even farce. A unique man ahead of his time, he lived a large part of his life among pirates yet managed to preserve what Coleridge called his "exquisite refinement of mind". A classic example of the best narrative history.