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DAMPIER?S MONKEY IBD

WAKEFIELD PRESS
12 / 2018
9781743056301
Inglés

Sinopsis

William Dampier, the &lsquo,devil&rsquo,s mariner&rsquo, as he has been called, a far voyager andátraveller extraordinaire, lived in an era when, more truly than in other periodsáof history, the past was being put behind the present, and everything was newá&ndash, a new world discovered by the first stirrings of the new science, under a newápolitical and economic formation.Dampier&rsquo,s Monkey examines the late-17th century ways of comprehending anáexpanding world by re-evaluating the travel narratives of the buccaneer WilliamáDampier. Included in this book is Dampier&rsquo,s journal of his voyage in the SoutháSeas from 1681 to 1691, complete with his annotations and illustrations,ápublished here for the first time.