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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier

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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier

by Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael

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0802714250
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9780802714251
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Walker & Company, 2004. 1st printing. Signed by the Prestons on title page. Gift note to prior owner also inked there. Square and clean copy showing light reader's use and handling. 372pp. Unclipped jacket lightly rubbed.. Signed. First Edition. Hardccover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

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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: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
Author
Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
Format/Binding
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0802714250
ISBN 13
9780802714251
Publisher
Walker & Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2004
Size
8vo - 8" - 9" Tall

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