William Dampier

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Willem van de Velde the Younger and Willem van de Velde the Elder. The buccaneer who circumnavigated three times, described the trade winds, piloted the ship that took Alexander Selkirk off Juan Fernandez and wrote the best sea narrative of his age. William Clark Russell, himself a sailor and a novelist of the sea, wrote this life...