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 description 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.
#3499567 in Books Glenn Robins Paul J Springer 2014-08-16 2014-08-18Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .45 x 6.00l; .0 #File Name: 041583337X198 pagesTransforming Civil War Prisons Lincoln Lieber and the Politics of Captivity Critical Moments in American History
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Origin of Policies in Civil War Prisons. (by qualified authors)By Jim S.Gary W. Gallagher; brilliant civil war historian; says analysis of Civil War Prisons in his opinion is the most biased topic in all that has been written North or South about the civil war. May accounts written by some authors that were never in a prison and each side tends to try and out due the other side with hyperbole. The read facts are important. This book carefully reviews the evolution of the policies for both North and South in the Civil War.
