Description
Product ID: | 9780241413289 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | A New Voyage Round the World |
Authors: | Author: William Dampier, Nicholas Thomas |
Page Count: | 512 |
Subjects: | True stories of discovery, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, Maritime history, Geographical discovery and exploration, Classic travel writing, Expeditions: popular accounts, Maritime history, Geographical discovery & exploration, Classic travel writing, Expeditions, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, c 1600 to c 1700, c 1700 to c 1800 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' GuardianThe pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid account of his buccaneering sea voyages around the world, from the Caribbean to the Pacific and East Indies. Filled with accounts of raids, escapes, wrecks and storms, it also contains precise observations of people, places, animals and food (including the first English accounts of guacamole, mango chutney and chopsticks). A bestseller on publication, this unique record of the colonial age influenced Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels and consequently the whole of English literature. Edited with an Introduction by Nicholas Thomas ''A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697'' Guardian |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-08-27 |