Dampier, William
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Dampier, William (1652–1715), navigator, explorer, and buccaneer, who travelled to South America, Yucatan, the Pacific, Australia, and the East Indies. His accounts of his travels (
New Voyage round the World, 1697;
Voyages and Descriptions, 1698;
A Voyage to New Holland, 1703–9, edited by J.
Masefield in 2 vols, 1906), written in a lively and straightforward style and showing precise scientific observation, heralded an era of great interest in travel and voyage literature. (See also
Selkirk, A.)
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind-Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
Magazine article from: Natural History; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier by Diana and Michael Preston Walker...century England for young men such as William Darnpier. With mercantile expansionism...start-up dot-corn. Even so, Dampier was hardly your run-of-the...
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William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's first natural historian.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society; 12/1/2000; ; 589 words
; Alex S. George, William Dampier in New Holland: Australia's first natural historian, Melbourne...39.95. The maritime history of Western Australia, in which William Dampier is such a significant figure, tends to loom less large in the...
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A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Science News; 8/28/2004; 632 words
; A PIRATE OF EXQUISITE MIND: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier DIANA AND MICHAEL PRESTON William Dampier was the first man to circumnavigate the world three times during his lifetime, which spanned...
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A Pirate Who Saw It All.(William Dampier)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 2/23/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...underappreciated 17th-century explorer, William Dampier. The accomplished native son had...not get beyond one salient fact: Dampier was a pirate. "They thought of...Exquisite Mind, a biography of Dampier due out in April. Dampier was...
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A PIRATE OF EXQUISITE MIND: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM DAMPIER, EXPLORER, NATURALIST AND BUCCANEER
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 8/21/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of crime A PIRATE OF EXQUISITE MIND: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM DAMPIER, EXPLORER, NATURALIST AND BUCCANEER by Diana and...authors, by far the most interesting of them being William Dampier. Dampier not only circled the globe twice and helped...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Primitive terrorists; Pirates.(A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier--Explorer, Naturalist and Buccaneer, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/31/2004; 700+ words
; ...changed utterly between 1680, when William Dampier set out in pursuit of Spanish barques...Blackbeard terrorised the Atlantic. Dampier and his fellow privateers were...of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier--Explorer, Naturalist...
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Letter: No gray area on abortion issue, WILLIAM A. DAMPIER, Concord
Newspaper article from: Concord Monitor; 3/18/2004; 446 words
; ...footnote to readers who claim to be Christian yet support "rights" to choose, I ask you to remember that being "lukewarm"will be judged to be the same as cold, and you will be spit out. There is no gray area. WILLIAM A. DAMPIER Concord
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William Dampier, 1651-1715. (pirata inglés)(TA: English pirate)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad; 6/16/1997; ; 378 words
; ...Si uno es un corsario pero escribe libros, acabar ganndose la simpata de la intelectualidad universal. Esto le pas a Dampier, pirata ingls que dedic 30 aos de su vida a dar varias veces la vuelta al mundo y contarlo luego en dos libros: Nuevo...
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Dampier, el pirata cientifico: pudo aduenarse de medio mundo y termino su vida sin un centavo, pero con el alma llena de fabulosos recuerdos. (La Aventura Humana).(William Dampier )(Biografia)
Magazine article from: Contenido; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Pero poca gente conoce tan siquiera el nombre de William Dampier, pese a que este caballero britnico fue un personaje...metieron debajo de la cama creyendo que haba vuelto William Dampier ...". En Villahermosa y Zihuatanejo A l se debe...
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MARK DAMPIER.(Hargreaves Lansdown)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Money Marketing; 6/7/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...as the reason for leaving. Dampier then set up Churchill Investments...back into the IFA's hands. Dampier says: "Take Isas, for example...has he any tips for budding Dampiers of the future? "Not likely...perhaps another reason why Dampier has such a high profile is...sorry, buccaneer) called ...
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William Dampier
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
William Dampier The English privateer and author William Dampier (1652-1715) explored the Western Australian...stimulated interest in the Pacific through popular travel books. William Dampier was born the son of a Somerset farmer in June 1652...
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Dampier, William
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Dampier, William (1652–1715), British navigator...published in 1998. Bibliography Lloyd, C. , William Dampier (1966). Preston, D., and and...A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier (2004).
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Travel and Travel Literature
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...other authors managed to get their message heard. William Dampier's A New Voyage round the World (1697), Voyages...Travels (1704), modeled on Hakluyt and inspired by Dampier's commercial success, was a comprehensive plan for...
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Sharp
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...Pacific, his buccaneering band broke up, some like William Dampier returning to the Atlantic across the Panama Isthmus...London where the derroterro was redrawn and coloured by William Hack ( fl . 1680–1700), who also had it...
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exploration
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...through the voyages of Francis Drake, Abel Tasman, William Dampier, James Cook, Vitus Bering, George Vancouver, and...was explored in the first half of the 20th cent. by William Bruce, Jean Charcot, Douglas Mawson, Ernest Shackleton...
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