A Pirate of Exquisite Mind

Informationen zum Autor Diana Preston is an Oxford-trained historian, writer, and broadcaster who lives in London. She is the author of The Road to Culloden Moor ; A First Rate Tragedy : Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole ; The Boxer Rebellion and Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania . Michael Preston, Diana Preston's husband, read English at Oxford University and is now an historian and traveller. Klappentext A rip-roaring swashbuckler about a forgotten 17th century English hero who, starting as a poor, piratical buccaneer, became a famed round the world explorer. Zusammenfassung William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. A unique man ahead of his time, he lived a large part of his life among pirates yet managed to preserve what Coleridge called his "exquisite refinement of mind".

Vorwort
A rip-roaring swashbuckler about a forgotten 17th century English hero who, starting as a poor, piratical buccaneer, became a famed round-the-world explorer.

Zusammenfassung
William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. A unique man ahead of his time, he lived a large part of his life among pirates yet managed to preserve what Coleridge called his "exquisite refinement of mind".

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