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Memoirs of a Buccaneer: Dampier's New Voyage Round the World, 1697 (Dover Maritime) by William Dampier is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Memoirs of a Buccaneer: Dampier's New Voyage Round the World, 1697 (Dover Maritime) about?

It was William Dampier's passion to see the world that turned him into a buccaneer. He possessed remarkable powers of observation and analysis, and his life as a seventeenth-century navigator aboard pirate and privateering ships is brilliantly detailed in his journal. Throughout his travels of Central and South America and the East Indies, Dampier provides riveting accounts of sea battles against Spanish treasure ships, as well as pirate life, lore, and customs. Originally published in 1697 as the __New Voyage,__ his journal became an instant success, and has been read ever since as one of the greatest travel and adventure accounts ever written.But __Memoirs of a Buccaneer__ is far more than historical adventure. Dampier was a man of intelligence and education with a strong naturalist's urge, and his book quickly became a vital source of information on the geology, biology, zoology, and peoples of the lands he visited. His descriptions of the West Indian manatee, booby birds, cacao, and mangrove trees—flora and fauna never before heard of in England and the Continent—are incredibly accurate. His notes on the produce of Guam and Mindanao—coconuts, vanilla beans, bananas, breadfruit,

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Author

William Dampier

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486145730

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Adventure, Memoir, Travel