Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes - William Dampier, Walter Henry Bates

Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes

Buch | Softcover
112 Seiten
2007
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-102541-4 (ISBN)
6,20 inkl. MwSt
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Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own.
Dampier's (1651-1715) adventures and writing inspired both Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, but in his own right he was a remarkable, observant and enjoyable writer - whether on a woefully mishandled pirate raid in Spanish America or on a desperate journey to Sumatra in an open boat or on the habits of manatees or bats. He also left the first description in English of the Aborigines of Australia - thus initiating a painful, now three centuries' long encounter between peoples on opposite sides of the world. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

William Dampier (1651-1715) was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer. He had a long and unbelievably chaotic career, managing more by accident than design to sail around the world three times and participate in a wilderness of almost uniformly unsuccessful piratical and semi-piratical ventures.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2007
Reihe/Serie Penguin Great Journeys ; No.5
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 112 x 179 mm
Gewicht 74 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
ISBN-10 0-14-102541-7 / 0141025417
ISBN-13 978-0-14-102541-4 / 9780141025414
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