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New York: Walker & Company, 2004. Hard cover. 5. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 372 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Appears new and unread..

New York: Walker, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 372, ""Darwin took his books aboard the Beagle. Swift and Defoe used his experiences as inspiration in writing Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Captain Cook relied on his observations while voyaging around the world. Coleridge called him a genius and ""a man of exquisite mind."" In the history of exploration, nobody has ventured further…

New York: Walker & Company, 2004. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Jan Glinski. ix, [3], 372 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Includes Acknowledgments, Prologue, Notes and Sources, Bibliography, Art Credits, and Index. Chapters cover The Adventurer; The Buccaneer; The Traveler; The Celebrity; Shark's Bay; "A Flame of Fire'; "Not a Fit Person"; 'Brandy Enough"; The Manila Galleon at Last; and Epilogue. A Pirate of Exquisite Mind restores William Dampier to his rightful place in history, as one of the pioneers who shaped our understanding of the natural world. Diana Preston is an Oxford educated historian and author. Diana often acts as a consultant to and appears in historical documentaries. Most recently she appeared in National Geographic's ‘Origins' series on which she was a consultant and script writer. With her husband Michael, Diana has co-authored ‘A Pirate of Exquisite Mind' about the 17th century buccaneer William Dampier and ‘A… Read More

New York: Walker and Co. 2004. 1st ed., octavo, pp.xii, 372, inc. Index, b&w plates, maps, text illus., endpaper maps, original bds lightly bumped, d.j. in protective sleeve. Near fine condition. Biography of pirate, explorer and scientist William Dampier (1651-1715). English poet and philosopher, Samuel Taylor Coleridge called Dampier a genius and "a rough sailor, but a man of exquisite mind" 1st Edition. Boards in d.j..