A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer
Subtitle: The Life of William Dampier
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: April 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780802714251
Subjects: Explorers; History; Dampier, William,; Biography; Hydrologists; Biography / Autobiography; Historical - General; History: World; Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Adventurers & Explorers; Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers; Naturalists; Criminals & Outlaws; 1652-1715
First sentence: One day, in September 1683 in the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa, William Dampier lay "obscured" among the scrubby vegetation to do some bird-watching.