William Dampier

This volume is a condensed edition of the voyage narratives of William Dampier, the English buccaneer, navigator, and naturalist of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Drawing on A New Voyage Round the World and later accounts of Campeachy and New Holland, it follows his circuits of the Pacific and Atlantic: raids and trading on Spanish coasts, landfalls in Australia, storms, and notes on winds, plants, animals, and peoples. The speaker is a working seaman who also measures and describes. The book is a travel record, not a modern biography and not a pirate novel.

Thirteen leaves of contemporary portraits, paintings and etchings. Full yellow-brown cloth with an wrap-around etching of a sailing ship in black. Map endleaves printed black on cream. Black slipcase.