A Pirate of Exquisite Mind : The Life of William Dampier
by Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
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- 9780552772105
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Seventeenth-century pirate genius William Dampier sailed around the world three times when crossing the Pacific was a major feat, was the first explorer to visit all five continents, and reached Australia eighty years before Captain Cook. His exploits created a sensation in Europe. Swift and Defoe used his experiences in writing Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe . Darwin incorporated his concept of "sub-species" into the theory of evolution. Dampier's description of breadfruit was the impetus for Captain Bligh's voyage on the Bounty . He was so influential that today he has more than one thousand entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, including such words as chopsticks, barbecue, and kumquat. Anthropologists still use his work.
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- Title
- A Pirate of Exquisite Mind : The Life of William Dampier
- Author
- Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0552772100
- ISBN 13
- 9780552772105
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2005
- Size
- 4x1x7
- X weight
- 12 oz
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