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    A Pirate of Exquisite Mind

    The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer

    Author Diana Preston, Michael Preston
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    Berkley / NAL | Berkley
    On sale Apr 05, 2005 | 384 Pages | 9780425200377
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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.
    A Pirate of Exquisite MindAcknowledgments
    Prologue

    Part I: The Adventurer
    I. A Self-Conceited Young Man
    II. A Great Prospect of Getting Money Here
    III. To Seek a Subsistence
    IV. A Door to the South Seas

    Part II: The Buccaneer
    V. That Sacred Hunger of Gold
    VI. Two Fat Monkeys
    VII. The Bachelor's Delight
    VIII. The Enchanted Islands
    IX. We Ran for It

    Part III: The Traveler
    X. You Would Have Poisened Them
    XI. As White as Milk and as Soft as Cream
    XII. This Mad Crew
    XIII. New-Gotten Library
    XIV. Our Little Ark
    XV. Gut Rot and Gunpowder
    XVI. The Painted Prince

    Part IV: The Celebrity
    XVII. The Rover's Return
    XVIII. Good Copy
    XIX. Dampier's Voyage Takes so Wonderfully
    XX. Kiss My Arse
    XXI. Shark's Bay
    XXII. A Flame of Fire
    XXIII. Not a Fit Person

    Part V: The Ancient Mariner
    XXIV. Brandy Enough
    XXV. The Manila Galleon at Last
    Epilogue

    Notes and Sources
    Bibliography
    Art Credits
    Index

    Diana Preston is a historian, writer and broadcaster. Her books include: The Road to Culloden Moore: A First Rate Tragedy; Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole; The Boxer Rebellion; Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania; and Before the Fall-Out. View titles by Diana Preston
    Michael Preston View titles by Michael Preston

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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.

    Table of Contents

    A Pirate of Exquisite MindAcknowledgments
    Prologue

    Part I: The Adventurer
    I. A Self-Conceited Young Man
    II. A Great Prospect of Getting Money Here
    III. To Seek a Subsistence
    IV. A Door to the South Seas

    Part II: The Buccaneer
    V. That Sacred Hunger of Gold
    VI. Two Fat Monkeys
    VII. The Bachelor's Delight
    VIII. The Enchanted Islands
    IX. We Ran for It

    Part III: The Traveler
    X. You Would Have Poisened Them
    XI. As White as Milk and as Soft as Cream
    XII. This Mad Crew
    XIII. New-Gotten Library
    XIV. Our Little Ark
    XV. Gut Rot and Gunpowder
    XVI. The Painted Prince

    Part IV: The Celebrity
    XVII. The Rover's Return
    XVIII. Good Copy
    XIX. Dampier's Voyage Takes so Wonderfully
    XX. Kiss My Arse
    XXI. Shark's Bay
    XXII. A Flame of Fire
    XXIII. Not a Fit Person

    Part V: The Ancient Mariner
    XXIV. Brandy Enough
    XXV. The Manila Galleon at Last
    Epilogue

    Notes and Sources
    Bibliography
    Art Credits
    Index

    Author

    Diana Preston is a historian, writer and broadcaster. Her books include: The Road to Culloden Moore: A First Rate Tragedy; Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole; The Boxer Rebellion; Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania; and Before the Fall-Out. View titles by Diana Preston
    Michael Preston View titles by Michael Preston

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