Dampier's Monkey, 9781743056301
Paperback
Explore the New World with a buccaneer, science, and a monkey.

Dampier's Monkey

The South Seas Voyages of William Dampier

$53.91

  • Paperback

    570 pages

  • Release Date

    7 December 2018

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Summary

William Dampier, the ‘devil’s mariner’ as he has been called, a far voyager and traveller extraordinaire, lived in an era when, more truly than in other periods of history, the past was being put behind the present, and everything was new - a new world discovered by the first stirrings of the new science, under a new political and economic formation.

Dampier’s Monkey examines the late-17th century ways of comprehending an expanding world by re-evaluating the travel narratives…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781743056301
ISBN-10:1743056303
Author:Adrian Mitchell
Publisher:Wakefield Press
Imprint:Wakefield Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:570
Edition:2nd
Release Date:7 December 2018
Weight:1.02kg
Dimensions:244mm x 170mm
About The Author

Adrian Mitchell

Adrian Mitchell was born in Adelaide, and for many years taught and published in Australian literature, at the University of Adelaide and then at the University of Sydney, where he remains an Honorary Research Associate. His interest now is in retrieving the stories of those who have been passed over or forgotten, and in finding new ways of re-presenting them.

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