A Pirate of Exquisite Mind
by Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0965890279
- ISBN 13
- 9780965890274
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Synopsis
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.
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- Wonder Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- A Pirate of Exquisite Mind
- Author
- Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0965890279
- ISBN 13
- 9780965890274
- Publisher
- Walker
- This edition first published
- 2004
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