It was William Dampier\'s passion to see the World that turned him into a buccaneer.
Originally published in 1697 a.
Throughout his travels of Central and South America and the East Indies, Dampier provides riveting accounts of sea battles against Spanish treasure ships, as well as pirate life, lore, and customs.
He possessed remarkable powers of observation and analysis, and his life as a seventeenth-century navigator aboard pirate and privateering ships is brilliantly detailed in his journal.
It was William Dampier\'s passion to see the World that turned him into a buccaneer