A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer
de Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
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- ISBN 10
- 042520037X
- ISBN 13
- 9780425200377
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Fairfax Station, Virginia, United States
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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
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 042520037X_used
- Título
- A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer
- Autor
- Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 777
- ISBN 10
- 042520037X
- ISBN 13
- 9780425200377
- Editorial
- Berkley
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005-04-05
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