A pirate of exquisite mind, explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier, Diana and Michael Preston
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A pirate of exquisite mind, explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier, Diana and Michael Preston
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eng
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A pirate of exquisite mind
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talking book daisy
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Diana and Michael Preston
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explorer, naturalist, and buccaneer : the life of William Dampier
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In the late 1600s, Dampier, an Englishman, circumnavigated the globe three separate times, mapping nearly every place he visited, but was also a buccaneer launching raids on Spanish ships. He was the first self-made naturalist to visit the Galapagos - his sketches of the region´s turtles set the stage for Darwin´s future visit - and his theories about how wind patterns affect ocean currents are still used today. c2004
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