WILLIAM DAMPIER

First published 1929 as one of the 'Golden Hind' seies by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London

A blue cloth bound book with gilt lettering to spine - Front board gilt series title and blind ship decoration. Some light rubbing and the back board is marked slightly. Page block has no foxing and is clean and tight - pages rough cut. VERY GOOD condition.

155 mm. x 220 mm. x 30 mm. 257 Pages + adverts

Contents

PREFACE
Chapter

1. PIRATE AND HYDROGRAPHER
2. WILLIAM DAMPIER SERVES THE KING
3. HE GOES TO THE WEST INDIES
4. JOINS THE BUCCANEERS .
5. AND SINGES THE KING OF SPAIN'S BEARD
6. HE ADVENTURES TO AFRICA AND BACK
7. AND CIRCUMNAVIGATES THE GLOBE
8. HE MAKES A NAME IN ENGLAND
9. HE EXPLORES AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA
10. HE IS COURT-MARTIALLED BUT GETS ANOTHER COMMAND .
11. HE MAKES HIS LAST VOYAGE
12. AND SLIPS HIS CABLE

INDEX

Illustrations

CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER .
From the painting by Thomas Murray in the National Portrait Gallery.

HYMERFORD HOUSE, EAST COKER, DAMPIER'S BIRTHPLACE

THE BATTLE OF THE TEXEL, AUGUST 11TH, 1673
From a colour print lent by Messrs. T. H. Parker.

PANAMA ABOUT 1690 .
From the Macpherson Collection.

MOLL'S MAP OF THE MIDDLE PART OF AMERICA

A FIFTH-RATER OF 1684
From yohn Charnock's " History of Marine Architecture."

A PAGE ILLUSTRATION FROM DAMPIER'S " A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD " .
Reproduced from the 1697 edition.

MAP ILLUSTRATING THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. " ROEBUCK "

THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ

CAPTAIN WOODES ROGERS, WITH HIS SON AND DAUGHTER, 1729
From the engraving by W. Skelton af ter the painting by Hogarth

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