A man born with few advantages, William Dampier\'s single-minded determination to see the world bore all before it.
Impressing the Admiralty with his book, A New Voyage round the World, Dampier was given command of the infamou.
A self-taught geographer, hydrographer and navigator, Dampier was also a keen natural historian who showed his contemporaries then-unknown regions of the world, and vividly described the exotic creatures and plants that inhabited them without exaggeration.
A man born with few advantages, William Dampier\'s single-minded determination to see the world bore all before it