A Pirate of Exquisite Mind-Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier

From: Natural History | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: Marschall, Laurence A | Copyright information

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind-Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier by Diana and Michael Preston Walker & Company, 2004; $27.00

Piracy-both buccaneering and privateering-was a viable career choice in seventeenth-century England for young men such as William Darnpier. With mercantile expansionism at its peak, the ships and colonies of Spain and France could be judged not as honest business enterprises but as legitimate targets in an economic war. To those wit...

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