A New Voyage Round the World
$22.94
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2020
Summary
A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies
The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures.
The world he describes sprawls all the way from the Caribbean west across the Pacific to the Phi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241413289 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241413281 |
| Author: | William Dampier, Nicholas Thomas |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 370g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
William Dampier
William Dampier (c.1651-1715) was a pirate and adventurer who was (albeit for chaotic and unintended reasons) the first man to voyage round the world three times. A New Voyage Round the World (1697), written from notes kept during his first voyage, was a literary sensation (inspiring Gulliver’s Travels) and the model for all the great British naturalists and explorers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Nicholas Thomas has been Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge since 2006. He has worked in archives and collections in Europe, North America, New Zealand and the Pacific. His books include Discoveries- The Voyages of Captain Cook (2003), and Islanders- the Pacific in the Age of Empire (2010), which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize.
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