A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer de Preston, Michael

Penguin Publishing Group, 2005. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Berkley, 2005-04-04. paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. No highlighting or marking with tight binding. Not ex-library.

Berkley, 2005-04-05. paperback. Used: Good.

New York: Berkley, 2004. 372pp. Extremities lightly rubbed. Illus.; endnotes; biblio.; index.. Pb. VG.

New York: Berkley Books, 2005. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. First printing. Edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. ix, 372 pp. 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.

Berkley, 2005-04-05. Paperback. New.

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedVeryGood. Minor shelf wear