Re: Famous Names
Posted: Jun 22, 2019 7:15 pm
Anne Bonny
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coracle wrote:(I saw Defoe's grave in London yesterday!)
Cleander wrote:@wagga: Interestingly, the man who rescued Selkirk, Captain Woodes Rogers, later went on a near-successful mission to wipe out piracy in the Caribbean. Marooned by a pirate, rescued by a pirate hunter!
waggawerewolf27 wrote:It gets even funnier. Did you know that William Dampier, a sometimes member of the British Navy, & otherwise a privateer, actually was a navigator of that expedition to rescue Selkirk? And that William Dampier's published journals of his journeys contributed to technological discoveries such as the measurement of longitude?
Cleander wrote:I'd totally forgot that about him being Rogers' navigator! But yes, I was aware of his book's existence, although I haven't read it.