A Cruising Voyage Around the World

Name: A Cruising Voyage Around the World
Author: Woodes Rogers

by Woodes Rogers

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Chuck Greif, Greg Weeks, Kim and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2017-09-13

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Public domain in the USA.

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Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800 Latin America -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 Privateering -- Early works to 1800 Selkirk, Alexander, 1676-1721

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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