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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: buccaneer explorer
    sub title: William Dampier's voyages
  name:
    name part: Dampier, William
    name part: 1651-1715
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Norris, Gerald.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2008
    edition: Revised edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
  abstract: William Dampier (1652-1725) is the most remarkable seaman that England produced in the century and a half between Drake and Captain Cook. They each circumnavigated the world once. Dampier did so three times. This edited account of his voyages gives an admirable picture of this fascinating and unorthodox figure in his own words.
  table of contents: Contents -- Introduction: page xi -- Chapter One: page 1 -- Outward bound to Jamaica and Mexico. Boobies, crabs, alligators and crocodiles. The logwood-cutters of Campeche. Hocksing bullocks. The great storm. Ill-mannered monkeys and other animals. The natives of Villahermosa. -- Chapter Two: page 29 -- A fresh start. An expedition over the Isthmus of Darien. The return journey. Mosquito Indians. The Islas del Maiz. Buccaneering off the coast of Venezuela. A cocoa plantation. Capture of a Danish slave ship. The Galapagos Islands. The death and burial of Captain Cook. -- Chapter Three: page 5 5 -- North to Amapala. Buccaneering off the coast of Peru. Peruvian rafts. Rain. Debacle in Panama Bay. The capture of Leon. Avocado, guava, prickly pear, cochineal. El Buffadore. The treasure ships. Desperate diseases. Crossing the Pacific. -- Chapter Four: page 79 -- Coconut and breadfruit. Mindanao and its people. Punishments. A Wapping bourgeois gentilhomme. The general's women. Some thoughts on differences in time. Captain Swan loses the Cygnet. -- Chapter Five: page 107 -- A new captain. Flying foxes. Customs in Cochinchina. Observations on the Chinese. Typhoons and waterspouts. The Batan Islands, south of Taiwan. A visit to New Holland. The first Englishman sets foot on Australian soil. `The miserablest people in the world.' -- Chapter Six: page 127 -- Pirating off the coast of Sumatera. Life on Great Nicobar. A lingering view of approaching death. Arrival at Pulo Way. A voyage to Tonquin. Its food and climate. The people and their dwellings. Life in the city. Faith, feasts and funerals. -- Chapter Seven: page 163 -- Bona and Choua, the rulers of old Vietnam. The military guard. Crime and punishment. Chopsticks. A social blunder. A Roman Catholic mission. A buccaneer's reflections on trade. The people of Sumatera.Religion and the law. The painted prince. The death ship. Arrival at Table Bay. The Hodmadods. Zebras. The island of St Helena. -- Chapter Eight: page 195 -- An …
  note: edited and with an introduction by Gerald Norris.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-262) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dampier, William
      name part: 1651-1715
    topic: Travel
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Voyages around the world
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: Explorers
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Naturalists
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  classification: G246.D17 A3 2008
  classification: 910.92
  identifier: 9781843833642
  identifier: 1843833646
  identifier: 2010481901
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100804
    record change date: 20210125091117.0
    record identifier: in00004350920