Dampier's Monkey
The South Seas Voyages of William Dampier
$46.75
- Paperback
570 pages
- Release Date
7 December 2018
Summary
William Dampier, the ‘devil’s mariner’ as he has been called, a far voyager and traveller extraordinaire, lived in an era when, more truly than in other periods of history, the past was being put behind the present, and everything was new - a new world discovered by the first stirrings of the new science, under a new political and economic formation.
Dampier’s Monkey examines the late-17th century ways of comprehending an expanding world by re-evaluating the travel narratives of the buccaneer William Dampier. Included in this book is Dampier’s journal of his voyage in the South Seas from 1681 to 1691, complete with his annotations and illustrations, published here for the first time.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743056301 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1743056303 |
| Author: | Adrian Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 570 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 7 December 2018 |
| Weight: | 1.02kg |
| Dimensions: | 170mm x 244mm |
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Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell was born in Adelaide, and for many years taught and published in Australian literature, at the University of Adelaide and then at the University of Sydney, where he remains an Honorary Research Associate. His interest now is in retrieving the stories of those who have been passed over or forgotten, and in finding new ways of re-presenting them.
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