William Dampier

William Dampier (1652 - March 1715), is at the same time known to be a traveller, a navigator and a Boucanier English, it is also a captain, a writer and a scientific observer. He is the first English to have explored or charted parts of the News-Holland (Australia) and New Guinea.

He traverses the seas on two journeys around the world: in (1673 - 1691 and 1699 - 1701). It left its name to an archipelago of the New Guinea.

From 1697, brings back its adventures in works to great success which it publishes in 1699, with London, in 3 volumes in-8, the Recueil of its voyages , translated into French, in 1701 and 1732. One owes him also a treaty entitled On the winds, the tides and the currents .

Biography

Dampier was born with East Coker in the Somerset and was baptized on September 5th 1651, wire of an English small farmer, it enters very young person the marine, it indeed gains the sea at the 16 years age. He is used with Edward Sprague in the third Anglo-German War and combat with the Bataille as Schooneveld in June 1673. In 1674, he works as manager of a plantation in Jamaica, but he takes again the sea at once. From 1683 it belongs to a forwarding in the Pacifique which leads it Guam to Sumatra, in China and India.

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