...Geraldine Barnes; Adrian Mitchell The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26305-Barnes.q4.jw.SH 3/26/03 12:37 PM Page 45 Measuring the Marvelous: Science and the Exotic in William Dampier...

...Anne M. Thell Published in collaboration with the Royal Society of London in 1697, William Dampier’s A New Voyage Round the World was the most popular and influential travel account of the first half of the eighteenth century. Yet despite the astonishing success of New Voyage within commercial...

... for travelers was that they had no reliable method of telling the truth: “First-person testimony was by no means widely trusted in the eighteenth century, especially the reports of travelers. . . . This prob- lem was never adequately solved” (“Eye-Witnessing,” 202). As a result, “Dampier’s and Anson’s...

... of the shoreline of what was then known as New Holland exhibit the difficulty that subsequent visitors were to confront. Basically, it was the barrenness of the coast they found so unfamiliar and so hard to digest. William Dampier, in the northwest, records a litany...

....9 The Miskito also provided food for privateers on the run. They were excellent harpooners, particularly skilled in striking for turtle or manatee. “For this they are esteemed and coveted by all priva- teers,” remarked William Dampier, “for one or two of them...

... to attack enemy merchant ships and take prizes. Commanders of such vessels sailing to the South Sea included William Dampier in 1703–07 and Woodes Rogers who sailed in 1708. Both faced mutinous crews, but these disputes were related to the “Jamaica disci- pline” that operated on privateering voyages...

... claim to fame. Adrian Mitchell and Geraldine Barnes contextualize the travels of William Dampier in contemporary attempts to come to terms with the confusing implications of an expanding body of scientific knowledge and the simi- larly expanding geographical...

..., Education, and the Moral Sentiments (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2013). Pp. xviii + 341. $65 Wetmore, Alex. Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Touching Fiction (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Pp. x + 207. $90 Williams, Glyn. Naturalists at Sea: From Dampier to Darwin (New...

.... The translation that follows in the next paragraph comes from Glyndwr Williams, Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2013), 57. 2. To cite some key works simply from the last dozen years, see Williams, Naturalists at Sea ; Shino Konishi...

..., William Dampier’s response to the Aboriginal peoples he encoun- tered when landing in northwest Australia in 1688: “The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world . . . setting aside their humane shape, they differ but little from Brutes . . . I did...

... of Charles II’s favorite commanders. Both sailed into the South Seas looking for the site of a possible naval base, and for treasure. In many respects their voyages resembled those of the great privateers such as Drake, Davis, Dampier, and Rogers, but then they came home to senior commands...