Author : Diana Preston
Release : 2010-12-14
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 180/5 ( reviews)

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A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind write by Diana Preston. This book was released on 2010-12-14. A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.