A Pirate of Exquisite Mind(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Seventeenth-century pirate genius William Dampier sailed
around the world three times when crossing the Pacific was a major
feat, was the first explorer to visit all five continents, and
reached Australia eighty years before Captain Cook. His exploits
created a sensation in Europe. Swift and Defoe used his experiences
in writing Gulliver’s Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Darwin
incorporated his concept of “sub-species” into the theory of
evolution. Dampier’s de*ion of breadfruit was the impetus for
Captain Bligh’s voyage on the Bounty. He was so influential that
today he has more than one thousand entries in the Oxford English
Dictionary, including such words as chopsticks, barbecue, and
kumquat. Anthropologists still use his work.

　　Diana Preston, the author of Lusitania, The Boxer Rebellion,
and other nonfiction works, and Michael Preston live in London.

Acknowledgments
Prologue
PART I.   THE ADVENTURER
　I  ‘A Self-Conceited Young Man” 
　II  ‘A Great Prospect of Getting Money Here” 
　III  “‘To Seek a Subsistence” 
　IV ‘A Door to the South Seas” 
PART II.   THE BUCCANEER
　V  “‘That Sacred Hunger of Gold” 
　VI  “Two Fat Monkeys” 
　VII The Bachelor’s Delight 
　VIII The Enchanted Islands 
　IX  “We Ran for It” 
PART III.   THE TRAVELER
　X  “‘You Would Have Poisoned Them” 
　XI  ‘As White as Milk and as Soft as Cream” 
　XII  “‘This Mad Crew” 
　XIII  “New-Gotten Liberty” 
　XIV “Our Little Ark” 
　XV Gut Rot and Gunpowder 
　XVI The Painted Prince 
PART IV.   THE CELEBRITY
　XVII The Rover’s Return 
　XVIII “Good Copy” 
　XlX  “‘Dampier’s Voyage Takes so Wonderfully” 
　XX Kiss MyArse 

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PARTV.THE ANCIENT MARINER