A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind
The Life Of William Dampier
$26.22
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2005
Summary
A rip-roaring swashbuckler about a forgotten 17th century English hero who, starting as a poor, piratical buccaneer, became a famed round-the-world explorer.
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 firs…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552772105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552772100 |
| Author: | Michael Preston, Diana Preston |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Corgi Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2005 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 30mm |
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Lively… extraordinary life - an unlikely combination of plundering and pioneering achievements in natural history and exploration
Lively… extraordinary life - an unlikely combination of plundering and pioneering achievements in natural history and exploration * The Sunday Times *Gripping and well-researched… An impressive achievement * Guardian *This long overdue biography wonderfully brings to life one of the most important explorers of the seventeenth century – Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the SeaThis eloquently enthusiastic biography, besides charting Dampier’s astonishing achievements, offers fascinating information about his times * The Age, Melbourne *
About The Author
Michael Preston
Diana Preston is an Oxford-trained historian, writer, and broadcaster who lives in London. She is the author of The Road to Culloden Moor; A First Rate Tragedy- Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole; The Boxer Rebellion and Wilful Murder- The Sinking of the Lusitania. Michael Preston, Diana Preston’s husband, read English at Oxford University and is now an historian and traveller.
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