A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier

ISBN-13: 9780552772105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 512 str.

Michael Preston

Opis

A man full of contradictions: he who achieved so much 'blew it' later in life, declining into scandal, failure and even farce. A unique man ahead of his time, he lived a large part of his life among pirates yet managed to preserve what Coleridge called his exquisite refinement of mind. A classic example of the best narrative history