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Author : William Dampier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486145730
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.
Author : Christian Isobel Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : America
ISBN : OXFORD:555000034
Author : Christian Isobel Johnstone
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1333116683
Excerpt from Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier: Including a View of the History of the Buccaneers This volume is devoted to the lives of three of the most eminent men whom England has at any time sent forth into the field of her most brilliant achieve ments: and the relation of their Voyages, Discover ies, and Adventures, is, to a certain extent, the his tory of her naval power and reputation. If the first aspiring thoughts of British youth are inseparably connected with maritime enterprise, - with the perils and vicissitudes, the novel and romantic incidents, the valour, daring, and heroic endurance, which are displayed in the narratives of the elder voyagers, - this work cannot want interest. From the very nature of the subject, it necessarily contains much curious and valuable instruction drawn from many sources, but in every instance verified by a careful examination of the original authorities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Christian Isobel Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : America
ISBN : UVA:X001272482
Author : Diana Preston,Michael Preston
Publisher : Random House
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446429181
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.
Author : William Hallam Bonner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B558687
Author : Francis Drake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001101551153
Author : William Dampier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1406599611
William Dampier (1651-1715) was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman to explore or map parts of New Holland (Australia) and New Guinea. He was the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. In the 1670s he crewed with buccaneers on the Spanish Main of Central America, later transferring to Captain Charles Swan's ship, the Cygnet, and setting out across the Pacific to raid the East Indies. After further adventures Dampier returned to England in 1691 via the Cape of Good Hope, penniless but in possession of his journals. The publication of these journals as New Voyage Round the World in 1697 created interest at the British Admiralty and in 1699 Dampier was given the command of HMS Roebuck with a commission to explore Australia and New Guinea. On the return voyage to England, Roebuck foundered near Ascension Island on 21 February 1701 and the crew were marooned there for five weeks before being picked up by an East Indiaman and returned home. He wrote an account of the 1699-1701 expedition entitled A Voyage to New Holland (1703) and a few years later added A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland (1709).
Author : William Dampier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Buccaneers
ISBN : 0953291804
This work provides an account of the buccanneer, scientist and explorer William Dampier. Setting sail from England in 1679 and returning 12 years later, having accidentally circumnavigated the globe on a series of pirate ships. Filled with descriptions of Dampier's escapades with the buccaneers of strange customs, and exotic flora and fauna, this revised and reprinted edition features an appendix of Dampier's natural history observations.
Author : William Dampier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0953291820
Offers an account of the buccaneer, scientist and explorer William Dampier. This book includes descriptions of Dampier's escapades with the buccaneers of strange customs and exotic flora and fauna. It also includes a specially created appendix of Dampier's natural history observations.
Author : William Dampier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1406599603
William Dampier (1651-1715) was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman to explore or map parts of New Holland (Australia) and New Guinea. He was the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. In the 1670s he crewed with buccaneers on the Spanish Main of Central America, later transferring to Captain Charles Swan's ship, the Cygnet, and setting out across the Pacific to raid the East Indies. After further adventures Dampier returned to England in 1691 via the Cape of Good Hope, penniless but in possession of his journals. The publication of these journals as New Voyage Round the World in 1697 created interest at the British Admiralty and in 1699 Dampier was given the command of HMS Roebuck with a commission to explore Australia and New Guinea. On the return voyage to England, Roebuck foundered near Ascension Island on 21 February 1701 and the crew were marooned there for five weeks before being picked up by an East Indiaman and returned home. He wrote an account of the 1699-1701 expedition entitled A Voyage to New Holland (1703) and a few years later added A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland (1709).
Author : Christian Isobel Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : America
ISBN : OCLC:19790758
Author : James Burney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Buccaneers
ISBN : UOM:39015027988826
Author : William Dampier
Publisher : Tomes of William Dampier
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1926892836
The Complete Works of William Dampier: Containing Particular Descriptions of Life in the Torrid Zone at the Dawn of Modern Science and at the Intersection of the Golden Age of Sail, the Golden Age of Exploration, and the Golden Age of Piracy THE PIRATE-SCIENTIST WILLIAM DAMPIER (1651-1715) lived at a remarkable time in human history: at the dawn of modern science and at the intersection of three golden ages: the golden ages of sail, exploration, and piracy. Curious to see the world and keen to add to the world's sum total of useful knowledge, he ventured out upon the high seas. He kept a careful account of his adventures in the world's Torrid Zone, describing as he went the soil, rivers, harbours, tides, currents, winds, plants, fruits and animals of the lands he visited, together with the inhabitants, their customs, religion, government and trade. WILLIAM DAMPIER sailed the great southern Pacific ocean four times, was the third Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, was the first person to circumnavigate the globe three times, was the first person to visit six continents, captained England's first scientific expedition, and touched Australian shores nearly 100 years before Captain James Cook. His writing immediately made him famous throughout Europe and impacted England's great poets and writers: Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Daniel Defoe, and Jonathan Swift. His scientific efforts influenced the work of Charles Darwin, Alexander von Humboldt, Edmund Halley, and Matthew Flinders. His writing inspired the English to challenge the Spanish and Dutch dominance in the South Seas. He wrote of free trade a century before Adam Smith. He introduced important new words to the English language, words like: banana, barbeque, castaway, sea-breeze, and subspecies. He was once left for dead by a crew of vicious mutineers, but survived against all odds. Dampier was a poor pirate, but precisely because he was a pirate he was able to travel the world and discover true and lasting treasure: hard and useful foundational knowledge in the realms of science, natural history, economics and political economy, hydrography, botany, zoology, ethnography, anthropology, navigation, geography, map-making, literature, and language. INSIDE this volume you will find the complete written works of William Dampier: A New Voyage Round The World A Supplement of a Voyage Round The World Two Voyages To Campeachy A Discourse Of Winds A Voyage To New Holland A Continuation Of A Voyage To New Holland Captain Dampier's Vindication Of His Voyage To The South-Seas In The Ship St. George Available in the PIRATE JOURNAL COLLECTION The Complete Works of William Dampier: Includes A New Voyage Round the World, Voyages & Descriptions (containing: A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World, Two Voyages to Campeachy, and A Discourse of Wind), A Voyage to New Holland, A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, and Captain Dampier's Vindication of His Voyage to the South-Seas In the Ship St. George By William Dampier Wafer's New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of Darien: The Story of His Exploits, Written by Himself By Lionel Wafer Ringrose's Buccaneers of America: The Dangerous Voyage and Bold Attempts of Captains Sharp, Watlin, Sawkins, Coxon, and Others, Performed Upon the Coasts of the South Sea: From The Journal Of Basil Ringrose By Basil Ringrose Captain Sharp's Journey Over the Isthmus of Darien and Expedition Into the South Seas: The Journal of His Expedition, Written by Himself By Bartholomew Sharp Cowley's Voyage Round the Globe: The Journal of His Adventures, Written by Himself By William Ambrosia Cowley
Author : Sir Francis Drake,Thomas Cavendish,William Dampier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:220925839