The Devil's Mariner: A Life of William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer, 1651-1715

by Anton Gill

Book Overview

A man born with few advantages, William Dampier's single-minded determination to see the world bore all before it.

A self-taught geographer, hydrographer and navigator, Dampier was also a keen natural historian who showed his contemporaries then-unknown regions of the world, and vividly described the exotic creatures and plants that inhabited them without exaggeration.

Impressing the Admiralty with his book, A New Voyage round the World,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1090338414
• ISBN13: 9781090338419
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"