A New Voyage Around the World (Penguin Classics)

'A roaring story … stays as vivid and thrilling at this time because it was on publication in 1697' Guardian

The pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe 3 times, and took notes wherever he went. That is his frank, vivid account of his buccaneering sea voyages around the globe, from the Caribbean to the Pacific and East Indies. Stuffed with accounts of raids, escapes, wrecks and storms, it additionally accommodates exact observations of individuals, locations, animals and meals (together with the primary English accounts of guacamole, mango chutney and chopsticks). A bestseller on publication, this distinctive report of the colonial age influenced Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels and consequently the entire of English literature.

Edited with an Introduction by Nicholas Thomas