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Sto caricando le informazioni... Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes (Penguin Great Journeys) (1697)di William Dampier
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Explorer and sometime pirate William Dampier went round the world three times and wrote the first English language travel book. This book is part of the Penguin Great Journeys series and features Dampier's exploits in Sumatra, the Philippines and Australia. He writes of the appearance and ways of the local Indian tribes and Aborigines. He also closely observes the various insects, sea life, especially the various turtles, and bats. Written about 1686, this is the world when it was wild and dangerous. Dampier loses several of his crew over the course of the journal. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Dampier's (1651-1715) adventures and writing inspired both Robinson Crusoeand 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. 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)919.41041History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands, Arctic islands, Antarctica and on extraterrestrial worlds Australia Western AustraliaClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Thus the reader needs to abandon questioning how this abbreviated little work finds the author in the FIRST half on a fairly mundane trading trip to Jamaica, then branching off to S America (much adventure in Honduras region...Indians, nasty Spaniards...) and then suddenly on the opposite side of the world taking in Mindanao, Australia (Arnhem land?) where the Aborigines are "the miserablest People in the World. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are Gentlenen to these."...and Sumatra, returning home with a captured 'Painted Prince' whom he later sold to be exhibited in England...
In between are natural history accounts of turtles, manatees etc.
Would have liked a clearer understanding of motivation for all the journeys but quite an adventure. ( )