Dampier's Monkey
Author: Adrian Mitchell
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 1862547599
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Author: Adrian Mitchell
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 1862547599
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Including William Dampier's unpublished journal".
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-16
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "William Dampier" by William Clark Russell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Christian Isobel Johnstone
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 432
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Geraldine Barnes with Gabrielle Singleton
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2008-12-11
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1443802328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays in this collection -- a selection of papers presented at the University of Sydney Centre for Medieval Studies workshop, ‘Travel and Cartography from Bede to the Enlightenment’ (August 22-23, 2001) – track a variety of travel narratives from the eighth century to the eighteenth. Their voyages, which extend from from the literal to the spiritual, the political, and the artistic, show how the concept of narrative mapping has changed over time, and how it encompasses cosmogony, geography, chorography, topography, and inventory. Each essay is concerned in some way with the application of the medieval geographical imagination, or with the enduring influence of that imagination upon post-medieval travel and discovery writing. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate university students and to a broad range of academics across the disciplines of literature and history. It will be of particular interest to medievalists and scholars of the early modern period and to readers of, the new (1997) scholarly journal, Studies in Travel Writing. The volume will also appeal to a more general, informed readership interested in the history of travel and the history of ideas, early contact with indigenous people, and encounters between East and West.
Author: Diana Preston
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-12-14
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 1446429180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →William 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 own work; was the first travel writer: A NEW VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD was instant bestseller when it was published in 1697 - said to have influenced the novels of Swift and Defoe. A man full of contradictions: he who achieved so much 'blew it' later in life, declining into scandal, failure and even farce. A unique man ahead of his time, he lived a large part of his life among pirates yet managed to preserve what Coleridge called his "exquisite refinement of mind". A classic example of the best narrative history.