A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies
William Dampier (c.1651-1715) was a pirate and adventurer who was
(albeit for chaotic and unintended reasons) the first man to voyage
round the world three times. A New Voyage Round the World (1697),
written from notes kept during his first voyage, was a literary
sensation (inspiring Gulliver's Travels) and the model for all the
great British naturalists and explorers of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
Nicholas Thomas has been Director of the Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology, Cambridge since 2006. He has worked in archives and
collections in Europe, North America, New Zealand and the Pacific.
His books include Discoveries- The Voyages of Captain Cook (2003),
and Islanders- the Pacific in the Age of Empire (2010), which was
awarded the Wolfson History Prize.
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