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William Dampier (5 September 1651 (baptised) – March 1715) was an English
England

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 buccaneer
Buccaneer

The buccaneers were Piracy who attacked Habsburg Spain and France shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the late 17th century.The term buccaneer is now used generally as a synonym for pirate....
, sea captain, author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman to explore or map parts of New Holland
New Holland (Australia)

New Holland is a history name for the island continent of Australia. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman as Nova Hollandia, naming it after the Dutch province of Holland, and remained in use for 180 years....
 (Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
) and New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
. He was the first person to circumnavigate the world three times.

Diana and Michael Preston, in A Pirate of Exquisite Mind, describe him as the greatest nautical explorer-adventurer, British or otherwise, between the Elizabethans (notably Sir Francis Drake
Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral , was an England sea captain, privateer, navigation, slaver, and politics of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581....
 and Sir Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh, was a famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier and explorer.Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne....
) and James Cook
James Cook

Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
.






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William Dampier (5 September 1651 (baptised) – March 1715) was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 buccaneer
Buccaneer

The buccaneers were Piracy who attacked Habsburg Spain and France shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the late 17th century.The term buccaneer is now used generally as a synonym for pirate....
, sea captain, author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman to explore or map parts of New Holland
New Holland (Australia)

New Holland is a history name for the island continent of Australia. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman as Nova Hollandia, naming it after the Dutch province of Holland, and remained in use for 180 years....
 (Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
) and New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
. He was the first person to circumnavigate the world three times.

Diana and Michael Preston, in A Pirate of Exquisite Mind, describe him as the greatest nautical explorer-adventurer, British or otherwise, between the Elizabethans (notably Sir Francis Drake
Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral , was an England sea captain, privateer, navigation, slaver, and politics of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581....
 and Sir Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh, was a famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier and explorer.Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne....
) and James Cook
James Cook

Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
. Yet he is relatively little known in Australia, and even less known in his native country.

First circumnavigation


In 1678 he crewed with buccaneer
Buccaneer

The buccaneers were Piracy who attacked Habsburg Spain and France shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the late 17th century.The term buccaneer is now used generally as a synonym for pirate....
s on the Spanish Main
Spanish Main

The Spanish Main was the mainland coast of the Spanish Empire around the Caribbean, a region initially called "Spanish America." It included Florida, Mexico, Central America and the north coast of South America....
 of Central America
Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
, twice visiting the Bay of Campeche
Bay of Campeche

The Bay of Campeche is the southern bight of the Gulf of Mexico. It is surrounded on three sides by the Mexico States of Mexico of Campeche, Tabasco and Veracruz....
. This led to his first circumnavigation: in 1679 he accompanied a raid across the Isthmus of Darién
Darién Province

Dari?n is a province in eastern Panama. It is also the largest province in Panama. It is hot, humid, heavily forested, and sparsely populated....
 in Panama
Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....
 and captured Spanish ships on the Pacific coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided Spanish settlements in Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 before returning to the Caribbean.

Dampier made his way to Virginia
Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is an United States U.S. state on the East Coast of the United States of the Southern United States. The state is known as the "Old Dominion" and sometimes as "Mother of Presidents", because it is the birthplace of Lists of United States Presidents by place of birth#By state....
, where in 1683 he engaged with the privateer John Cooke
John Cooke

John Cooke may refer to:* John Cooke , List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford * John Cooke , English cricketer* John Cooke , American locomotive maker...
 (Pirate)(or Cook). Cook entered the Pacific via Cape Horn
Cape Horn

Cape Horn island is the southernmost Headlands and bays of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile.Cape Horn is widely considered to be the most southerly point of South America, and marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage; for many years it was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried tr...
 and spent a year raiding Spanish possessions in Peru, the Galapagos Islands
Galápagos Islands

Gal?pagos Islands are an archipelago of Island#Volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, 972 km west of continental Ecuador....
, and Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
. This expedition collected buccaneers and ships as it went along, at one time having a fleet of ten vessels. In Mexico Cook died, and a new leader, Captain Edward Davis
Edward Davis

Edward Davis or Davies was an English buccaneer active in the Caribbean during the 1680s and would lead successful raids against Le?n and Panama in 1685, the latter considered one of the last major buccaneer raids against a Spanish stronghold....
, was elected captain by the crew. Dampier transferred to Captain Charles Swan
Charles Swan

Charles Swan was a reluctant buccaneer, killed 1690.Captain Swan was forced into piracy by his crew in the 1680s, and proceeded to write letters to the owners of his ship Cygnet in London, begging them to intercede with James II of England for his pardon - even as he looted his way up and down the coast of South America....
's ship, the Cygnet, and on 31 March 1686 they set out across the Pacific to raid the East Indies, calling at Guam
Guam

Guam , officially the Territory of Guam, is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated insular area of the United States....
 and Mindanao
Mindanao

Mindanao is the second largest and easternmost island in the Philippines. It is also one of the three island groups in the country, along with Luzon and Visayas....
. Leaving Swan and 36 others behind, the rest of the pirates sailed to Manila
Manila

The 'City of Manila' , or simply 'Manila', is the Capital of the Philippines and one of the 17 cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila....
, Pulo Condore, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
, the Spice Islands, and New Holland
New Holland (Australia)

New Holland is a history name for the island continent of Australia. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman as Nova Hollandia, naming it after the Dutch province of Holland, and remained in use for 180 years....
 (Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
).

Early in 1688 Cygnet was beached on the northwest coast of Australia, near King Sound
King Sound

King Sound is a large gulf in northern Western Australia. It expands from the mouth of the Fitzroy River , one of Australia largest watercourses, and opens to the Indian Ocean....
. While the ship was being careened
Careening

Careening a sailing Ship means to beach it at high tide in order, usually, to expose one side or another of the ship's Hull for maintenance below the water line when the tide goes out....
 Dampier made notes on the fauna and flora he found there. Later that year, by agreement, he and two shipmates were marooned on one of the Nicobar Islands
Nicobar Islands

The Nicobar Islands are an island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean, and are part of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India....
. They built a small craft and called at "Acheen" (Aceh
Aceh

Aceh is a Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Its full name is Nanggr?e Aceh Darussalam....
) in Sumatra
Sumatra

Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
. After further adventures Dampier returned to England in 1691 via the Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headlands and bays on the Atlantic Ocean coast of South Africa. There is a very common misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa and the dividing point between the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Oceans, but in fact the southernmost point is Cape Agulhas, about 150 kilometres t...
, penniless but in possession of his journals.

The Roebuck expedition

Map Dampier Roebuck 1699
The publication of these journals as New Voyage Round the World in 1697 created interest at the British Admiralty
Admiralty

The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put "in commission", and was exercised by a Board of Admiralty....
 and in 1699 Dampier was given the command of HMS Roebuck
HMS Roebuck (1690)

HMS Roebuck was a small ship of the Royal Navy and, under the command of William Dampier, carried the first English scientific expedition to Australia....
 with a commission to explore Australia and New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
.

The expedition set out on 14 January 1699, and on 26 July 1699 he reached Dirk Hartog Island
Dirk Hartog Island

Dirk Hartog Island is an island off the Gascoyne coast of Western Australia, within the Shark Bay, Western Australia World Heritage Area. It is about 80 kilometres long and between 3 and 15 kilometres wide and is Western Australia's largest and most western island....
 at the mouth of Shark Bay
Shark Bay

Shark Bay may refer to the following locations in Western Australia:* Shire of Shark Bay* the locality of Shark Bay, now known as Denham, Western Australia...
 in Western Australia
Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
. In search of water he followed the coast northeast, reaching the Dampier Archipelago
Dampier Archipelago

The Dampier Archipelago is a group of islands near Dampier, Western Australia. It is named after William Dampier, an English buccaneer and explorer who visited in 1699....
 and then Roebuck Bay, but finding none he was forced to bear away north for Timor
Timor

Timor is an island at the south end of the Malay Archipelago, north of the Timor Sea. It is divided between the independent state of East Timor, , and West Timor, belonging to the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara....
. Then he sailed east and on 3 december 1699 sighted New Guinea, which he passed to the north. Sailing east, he traced the southeastern coasts of New Hanover
New Hanover Island

New Hanover Island, , also called Lavongai, is a large volcanic island island in New Ireland Province, part of the Bismarck Archipelago of the New Guinea Islands region of Papua New Guinea, at ....
, New Ireland
New Ireland (island)

New Ireland is a large island in Papua New Guinea, approximately 8,650 km? in area. It is the main and largest island of the New Ireland Province....
 and New Britain
New Britain

New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from the island of New Guinea by the Dampier Strait , and from New Ireland by the St....
, charting the Dampier Strait
Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea)

Dampier Strait in Papua New Guinea separates Umboi Island and New Britain, linking the Bismarck Sea to the north with the Solomon Sea to the south, at ....
 between these islands (now the Bismarck Islands) and New Guinea.

On the return voyage to England, Roebuck foundered near Ascension Island
Ascension Island

Ascension Island is an isolated island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean, around from the coast of Africa, and from the coast of South America....
 on 21 February 1701 and the crew were marooned there for five weeks before being picked up on 3 April by an East Indiaman and returned home in August 1701.

Although many papers were lost with the Roebuck, Dampier was able to save many new charts of coastlines, trade wind
Trade wind

The trade winds are the Prevailing winds of easterlies surface winds found in the tropics near the Earth's equator. The trade winds blow predominantly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere....
s and currents in the seas around Australia and New Guinea.

On his return Dampier was court-martial
Court-martial

A court-martial is a military court. These military courts can determine punishments for members of the military subject to military law who are found guilty or may dismiss the charges based on the evidence and the case presented....
led for cruelty. On the outward voyage Dampier had crewman George Fisher removed from the ship and jailed in Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
. Fisher returned to England and complained about his treatment to the Admiralty. Dampier wrote an angry vindication of his conduct, but he was found guilty, docked his pay for the voyage, and dismissed from the Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
.

Second circumnavigation


He wrote an account of the 1699–1701 expedition, A Voyage to New Holland and returned to privateer
Privateer

A privateer was a private warship authorized by a country's government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping. Strictly, a privateer was only entitled by its state to attack and rob enemy vessels during wartime....
ing.

The War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Spanish Succession

War of the Spanish Succession was a war fought in 1701-1714, in which several European powers combined to stop a possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under a single Bourbon monarch, upsetting the European Balance of power in international relations....
 broke out in 1701 and English privateers were being readied to assist against French and Spanish interests. Dampier was appointed commander of the 26-gun government ship St George, with a crew of 120 men. They were joined by the 16-gun galleon Cinque Ports
Cinque Ports (1703 ship)

Cinque Ports is the name of an England galley whose sailing master was Alexander Selkirk, generally accepted as the model for the fictional Robinson Crusoe....
 (63 men) and sailed on April 30 1703.

En-route they unsuccessfully engaged a French ship but captured three small Spaniard ships and one vessel of 550 tons.

Capt Dampier's New Voyage To New Holland &c in 1699 Project Gutenberg Etext 15675
However, the expedition was most notable for the events surrounding Alexander Selkirk
Alexander Selkirk

Alexander Selkirk, born Alexander Selcraig , was a Scotland sailor who spent four years as a castaway when he was marooning on an uninhabited island....
. The captain of the Cinque Ports, Thomas Stradling fell out with Sailing Master Selkirk. In October 1704 the Cinque Ports had stopped at the uninhabited Juan Fernández Islands
Juan Fernández Islands

The Juan Fern?ndez Islands is a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the Pacific Ocean, situated about 667 km off the coast of Chile, and is composed of several volcanic islands:...
 off the coast of Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
 to resupply. Selkirk had grave concerns about the seaworthiness of Cinque Ports and after a disagreement with Stradling, he was left on the island. Selkirk was to remain marooned for four years and 4 months and his experiences were to become part of the inspiration for Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an United Kingdom writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe....
's Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Indigenous peoples of the Americas, captives, and mu...
.

Selkirk's misgivings were fully justified: Cinque Ports did later sink with the loss of most of her crew.

Dampier returned to England in 1707 and in 1709 his A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland was published.

Third circumnavigation

Dampier was engaged in 1708 by the privateer Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers

Woodes Rogers was an England sea captain, privateer, and, later, the first List of colonial heads of the Bahamas of the Bahamas. He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued the marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe....
 as sailing master on the Duke. This voyage was more successful: Selkirk was rescued on 2 February 1709, and the expedition amassed nearly £200,000 (over £20,000,000 in 2009) of profit. However, Dampier died in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 in 1715 before he received his share.

Influence

Dampier influenced several figures better known than he:
  • His observations and analysis of natural history
    Natural history

    Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards the observational than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research that is published in magazines than in academic journals....
     helped Charles Darwin
    Charles Darwin

    Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
    's and Alexander von Humboldt
    Alexander von Humboldt

    was a German people natural scientist and List of explorers, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguistics, Wilhelm von Humboldt ....
    's development of their theories,
  • He made innovations in navigation technology that were studied by James Cook
    James Cook

    Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
     and Horatio Nelson
    Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

    Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bront?, Order of the Bath was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland flag officer famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars....
    .
  • Daniel Defoe
    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an United Kingdom writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe....
    , author of Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Indigenous peoples of the Americas, captives, and mu...
    , was inspired by accounts of real-life castaway
    Castaway

    A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore. While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a deserted island either to evade their kidnapping or the world in general....
     Alexander Selkirk
    Alexander Selkirk

    Alexander Selkirk, born Alexander Selcraig , was a Scotland sailor who spent four years as a castaway when he was marooning on an uninhabited island....
    , a crew-member on Dampier's voyages.
  • His reports on breadfruit
    Breadfruit

    Breadfruit is a species of Flowering plant tree in the Morus family, Moraceae, that is native to the Malay Peninsula and western Pacific Ocean islands....
     led to William Bligh
    William Bligh

    Vice-Admiral William Bligh Fellow of the Royal Society Royal Navy was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. The notorious Mutiny on the Bounty occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift by the mutineers in the Bounty's l...
    's ill-fated voyage in HMS Bounty
    HMS Bounty

    HMS Bounty , famous as the scene of the Mutiny on the Bounty on 28 April 1789, was originally a full rigged ship cargo ship the Bethia, purchased by the British Admiralty, then modified and commissioned as His Majesty's Armed Vessel the Bounty for a botanical mission to the Pacific Ocean....
    .
  • He is cited over a thousand times in the Oxford English Dictionary
    Oxford English Dictionary

    The Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press , is a comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Two fully-bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989; as of December 2008 the dictionary's current editors have completed a quarter of the third edition....
     notably on words such as 'barbecue
    Barbecue

    Barbecue or barbeque is a method and apparatus for cooking food, often meat, with the heat and hot gases of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of charcoal and may include application of a marinade, spice rub, or Basting barbecue sauce to the meat....
    ', 'avocado
    Avocado

    The avocado , also known as palta or aguacate , butter pear or alligator pear, is a tree native to Mexico, South America and Central America, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae....
    ', 'chopsticks
    Chopsticks

    Chopsticks are a pair of small, equal-length, tapered sticks. They are used as the traditional eating utensils of China, Japan, Korea, Republic of China, and Vietnam....
    ' and 'sub-species'. That is not to say he coined the words, but his use of them is the first known example in English.
  • His travel journals depicting Panama
    Panama

    Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....
     influenced the undertaking of the ill-fated Darien Scheme
    Darién scheme

    The Darien scheme , was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the 1690s....
    , leading to the Act of Union of 1707.
  • His notes on the fauna and flora of northwestern Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
     were studied by naturalist and scientist Joseph Banks
    Joseph Banks

    Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, Order of the Bath, President of the Royal Society was an England Natural history, Botany and patron of the natural sciences....
     who made further studies during the first voyage with Cook. It helped lead to the naming of and colonization of Botany Bay
    Botany Bay

    Botany Bay is a Headlands and bays in Sydney, New South Wales, a few kilometres south of the Sydney central business district. The Cooks River and the Georges River are the two major tributaries that flow into the bay....
     and the founding of modern Australia.
  • He is mentioned in the Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel Jos? de la Concordia Garc?a M?rquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garc?a M?rquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century....
     short story The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship.
  • He is parodied mercilessly by Jonathan Swift
    Jonathan Swift

    Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satire, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Dublin....
     in Part IV of Gulliver's Travels
    Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels , officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre....
    .


Works

  • A New Voyage Round the World, (1697)
  • Voyages and Descriptions, (1699)
    1. A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World
    2. The Campeachy Voyages
    3. A Discourse of Winds
  • A Voyage to New Holland, (Part 1 1703, Part 2 1709)


Further reading

  • Diana and Michael Preston, A Pirate of Exquisite Mind
  • Anton Gill, Devil's Mariner
  • Riccardo Capoferro, Frontiere del racconto. Letteratura di viaggio e romanzo in Inghilterra, 1690-1750, Meltemi, 2007.
  • Woodes Rogers
    Woodes Rogers

    Woodes Rogers was an England sea captain, privateer, and, later, the first List of colonial heads of the Bahamas of the Bahamas. He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued the marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe....
    , Cruising Voyage Round the World, 1712.
  • Clennell Wilkinson, William Dampier, John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1929.


External links

  • Works by William Dampier: facsimile scans at , originals held by the National Library of Canada
    Library and Archives Canada

    Library and Archives Canada is a Government of Canada department responsible for the collection and preservation of the documentary heritage of Canada through writings, pictures and other documents relevant to the history of Canada, culture of Canada and the politics of Canada....
    .
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