Article: A Pirate of Exquisite Mind-Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier

A Pirate of Exquisite Mind-Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier by Diana and Michael Preston Walker & Company, 2004; $27.00

Piracy-both buccaneering and privateering-was a viable career choice in seventeenth-century England for young men such as William Darnpier. With mercantile expansionism at its peak, the ships and colonies of Spain and France could be judged not as honest business enterprises but as legitimate targets in an economic war. To those with adventurous souls but little tolerance for military discipline, shipping out with a crew of marauders was an attractive option. Many crews even practiced a form of participatory democracy, electing their ...

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