Voyage to New Holland
by William Dampier
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Offers a personal account of the author's two-year expedition to Australia and New Guinea aboard the Roebuck from 1699-1701. This book presents an account of one of the first British voyages of discovery.Tags
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William Dampier (1652-1715) is the most remarkable seaman that England produced in the century and a half between Drake and Captain Cook. They each circumnavigated the world once; Dampier did so three times
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- Travel, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Science & Nature
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- 910.91648 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel Explorers & Travelers Geography of and travel in areas, regions, places in general Air And Water Pacific Ocean
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- G420 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Geography (General) Special voyages and travels
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