Author: William Dampier
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486457265
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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It was William Dampier's passion to see the world that turned him into a buccaneer. He possessed remarkable powers of observation and analysis, and his life as a seventeenth-century navigator aboard pirate and privateering ships is brilliantly detailed in his journal. Throughout his travels of Central and South America and the East Indies, Dampier provides riveting accounts of sea battles against Spanish treasure ships, as well as pirate life, lore, and customs. Originally published in 1697 as the New Voyage, his journal became an instant success, and has been read ever since as one of the greatest travel and adventure accounts ever written. But Memoirs of a Buccaneer is far more than historical adventure. Dampier was a man of intelligence and education with a strong naturalist's urge, and his book quickly became a vital source of information on the geology, biology, zoology, and peoples of the lands he visited. His descriptions of the West Indian manatee, booby birds, cacao, and mangrove trees—flora and fauna never before heard of in England and the Continent—are incredibly accurate. His notes on the produce of Guam and Mindanao—coconuts, vanilla beans, bananas, breadfruit, and more—exerted a powerful influence on Britain's explorations and colonizations. And his depictions of Central America's Mosquito Indians and the natives of Mindanao proved to be highly reliable. The influence of this classic book on the work of later travelers is incalculable, leading writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Coleridge to borrow both facts and literary style from it. It continues to inspire readers today.
Memoirs of a Buccaneer
Author: William Dampier
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145735
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This fascinating travel and adventure book tells of pirate life and offers a rare look at the 17th-century botany and anthropology of Central and South America and the East Indies. 7 illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145735
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This fascinating travel and adventure book tells of pirate life and offers a rare look at the 17th-century botany and anthropology of Central and South America and the East Indies. 7 illustrations.
Memoirs of a Buccaneer. (Colonial edition.).
Author: Robert WILLIAMS (Author of "Memoirs of a Buccaneer.".)
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Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Memoirs of a Buccaneer
Author: Robert Williams
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Category : Buccaneers
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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ISBN: 9780873801744
Category : Buccaneers
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Memoirs of a Buccaneer. [A Novel.].
Author: Robert Williams (Novelist.)
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Memoirs of a Buccaneer
Author: Louis Adhemar Timothee Le Golif
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Category : Buccaneers
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Memoirs of a Buccaneer
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The Memoirs of a Buccaneer, Being a Wondrous and Unrepentant Account of the Prodigious Adventures and Amours of King Louis XIV's Loyal Servant Louis Adhemar Timothee Le Golif ...
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The Memoirs of a Buccaneer
Author: G. Alaux
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The Memoirs of a Buccaneer, Being a Wondrous Account of the Prodigious Adventures and Amours of King Louis XIV's Loyal Servant, Known for His Singular Wound as Borgnefesse, Captain of the Buccaneers
Author: L. A. T. Le Golif
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The Buccaneer
Author: Mrs. S. C. Hall
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Category : Pirates
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Pirates
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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