A New Voyage Round The World - Book Review

TheSailingChannel.TV uses historic images and classical music to bring to life its review of A New Voyage Round The World by William Dampier. First published in 1697, a new edition makes this little known classic available to the modern reader. Providing the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, William Dampier was the forefather of the English narrative. Pirate, explorer and naturalist, Dampier provides one of the earliest and most eloquent accounts of discovery and piracy on the high seas with keen observations of people, places, and nature. Dampier circled the globe three times, wrote of the wildlife and flora of the Galapagos 150 years before Darwin, visited Australia close to 80 years before Cook, and his innovations in navigational technology were studied by Cook and Nelson. A New Voyage Round the World provides a rare and exciting glimpse into life on the ocean at a time when a true map of the world did not yet exist. Available at TheSailingChannel.TV/store

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[TheSailingChannel]

No, he was English. Search Wikipedia for William Dampier.

William Dampier (born August 1651 in East Coker, Somerset, England; died March 1715 in London, England)[1] was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman to explore or map parts of New Holland (Australia) and New Guinea and was the first person to circumnavigate the world three times.

[mindsoar]

William Dampier was English; not French.

His name is pronounced "Dam-pier"; not "Dam-pi-yeah"

[TheSailingChannel]

We identify Dampier as English at 27 seconds into the video. Thank you for correcting our pronunciation. We do hope you enjoyed the video.

[CRABPOTZ24]

@dampierben so am i - my surname is gooding tho - is yours dampier ?

[dampierben]

i am related to him