A New Voyage Round the World
work by Dampier
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contribution to Pacific exploration
- In European exploration: Westward voyages to the Pacific
” His book A New Voyage Round the World, published in 1697, further popularized the idea of a great southern continent.
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discussed in biography
- In William Dampier
His popular book, A New Voyage Round the World, was published in 1697. One of his ship’s logs contains the earliest known European description of a typhoon.
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study of storm tracks
- In Earth sciences: Observation and study of storms
…were recorded in William Dampier’s New Voyage Round the World. On July 4, 1687, Dampier’s ship survived the passage of what he called a “tuffoon” off the coast of China. The captain’s vivid account of this experience clearly describes the calm central eye of the storm and the passage of…
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