A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier
2005
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Livre de Michael Preston et Diana Preston · 2005
Genres : Culture et société, Histoire, BiographieWilliam Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research. Dampier was the first to map the winds and currents of the world's oceans; led the first recorded party of Englishmen to set foot on Australia - 80 years before Cook; wrote about Galapagos wildlife 150 years before Darwin, who drew on Dampier's notes in his... Voir plus
