Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne

Name: Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne
Author: Woodes Rogers

by Woodes Rogers

EN·~2 hours

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Illustrated by the editor.

Details

Full title

Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner

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Duration

~2 hours (159K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by StevenGibbs, Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2013-12-20

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800 Privateering -- Early works to 1800

About the author

Woodes Rogers

d. 1732

A daring privateer, globe-circling voyager, and colonial governor, he lived a life full of sea battles, shipwreck stories, and encounters with pirates. He is also remembered as the man who rescued Alexander Selkirk, whose real-life ordeal helped inspire Robinson Crusoe.

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