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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
de Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0802714250
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714251
- Librería
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Skyway, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Walker & Company, 2004. 1st printing. Signed by the Prestons on title page. Gift note to prior owner also inked there. Square and clean copy showing light reader's use and handling. 372pp. Unclipped jacket lightly rubbed.. Signed. First Edition. Hardccover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Turn-The-Page Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 072987
- Título
- A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
- Autor
- Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0802714250
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714251
- Editorial
- Walker & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
- Tamaño
- 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
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