A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier [Audiobook] download free by Diana Preston
- Listen audiobook: A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier
- Author: Diana Preston
- Release date: 2005/9/11
- Publisher: TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780552772105
- Rating: 7.37 of 10
- Votes: 724
- Review by: Lena Aldrich
- Review rating: 9.35 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/29
- Duration: 6H26M18S in 256 kbps (102.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-17
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4, MPC, MOD (compression ACE, TAR.7Z, XZ, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 512
- Includes a PDF summary of 45 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 33M18S (9 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research. Dampier was the first to map the winds and currents of the world's oceans; led the first recorded party of Englishmen to set foot on Australia - 80 years before Cook; wrote about Galapagos wildlife 150 years before Darwin, who drew on Dampier's notes in his own work; was the first travel writer: A NEW VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD was instant bestseller when it was published in 1697 - said to have influenced the novels of Swift and Defoe. A man full of contradictions: he who achieved so much 'blew it' later in life, declining into scandal, failure and even farce. A unique man ahead of his time, he lived a large part of his life among pirates yet managed to preserve what Coleridge called his 'exquisite refinement of mind'. A classic example of the best narrative history.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Maritime History
- Download servers: vBoxxCloud, Dropbox, FreakShare, Uploaded, Torrent, The Pirate Bay, FileServe. Compressed in ACE, TAR.7Z, XZ, ZIP, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.64 USD
- Dimensions: 127x198x32mm
- Weight: 346g
- Printed by: Corgi Books
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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