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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind
Language: en
Pages: 516
Authors: Diana Preston
Categories: Explorers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Random House

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The authors reveal the life of William Dampier, explorer, naturalist, and pirate-genius who inspired Darwin, Defoe, and Cook.
Memoirs of a Buccaneer
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: William Dampier
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-03 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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This fascinating travel and adventure book tells of pirate life and offers a rare look at the 17th-century botany and anthropology of Central and South America
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Diana Preston
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-26 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Darwin took his books aboard the Beagle. Swift and Defoe used his experiences as inspiration in writing Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Captain Cook rel
Before the Fall-Out
Language: en
Pages: 612
Authors: Diana Preston
Categories: Atomic bomb
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Random House

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Spanning fifty years, Before the Fall-Out tells the full story of how an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world produced the knowledge
Crusoe of Lonesome Lake
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Leland Stowe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1957 - Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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Singlehanded achievement by Ralph Edwards of wresting a farm homestead from the wilderness in British Columbia. A condensed version appeared in "Reader's digest