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Lively... extraordinary life - an unlikely combination of plundering and pioneering achievements in natural history and exploration The Sunday Times Gripping and well-researched... An impressive achievement Guardian This long overdue biography wonderfully brings to life one of the most important explorers of the seventeenth century -- Nathaniel Philbrick, Author Of In The Heart Of The Sea This eloquently enthusiastic biography, besides charting Dampier's astonishing achievements, offers fascinating information about his times The Age, Melbourne

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Diana Preston is an Oxford-trained historian, writer, and broadcaster who lives in London. She is the author of The Road to Culloden Moor; A First Rate Tragedy- Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole; The Boxer Rebellion and Wilful Murder- The Sinking of the Lusitania. Michael Preston, Diana Preston's husband, read English at Oxford University and is now an historian and traveller.

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