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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
por Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
- Novo
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Novo/New
- ISBN 10
- 0802714250
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714251
- Livreiro
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Charlotte Hall, Maryland, 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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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 007419
- Título
- A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
- Autor
- Preston, Diana; Preston, Michael
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Condição de sobrecapa
- New
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0802714250
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714251
- Editorial
- Walker Books
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2004
- Dimensão
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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