Rogers's A Cruising Voyage Round the World - Buccaneering Volume with 5 Folding Maps & Engravings

Rogers's A Cruising Voyage Round the World - Buccaneering Volume with 5 Folding Maps & Engravings
This classic volume of pirate literature is Captain Woodes Rogers's A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First into the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, 1708-11. Containing a Journal of all the remarkable transections, particularly of the taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the Acpulco Ship and the other prizes; An Account of Alexander Selkirk's living alone four years and four months on an Island, &c. Second Edition Corrected The work was published in London in 1726 for Bernard Lintot.

Though the title indicates second edition, according to Hill, this is the fourth edition which is rarer and includes the additional plates of the Alligator & Crocodile. The book is bound in full leather with gold gilt details to spine and boards. It is complete with all five folding maps and plates throughout the text. A large portion of the work relates to California, Mexico, and South America.

Captain Woodes Rogers was the Commander of the Expedition which sailed from Briston in the ships Duke and Dutchess. His and Edward Cooke's expedition accounts are generally believed to be the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

"This work may be considered a bucaneering classic. With William Dampier as pilot, Captain Woodes Rogers' privateering expedition set sail from Bristol. After sailing down the coast of Brazil and rounding Cape Horn, she made for the deserted island of Juan Fernandez... There Rogers rescued the celebrated Alexander Selkirk... The expedition then cruised the coast of Peru, taking various prizes, reached California, and crossed the Pacific to Asia." (Hill 258)

"Rogers' account is considered as a buccaneering classic. With William Dampier as pilot, Captain Woodes Rogers' privateering expedition set sail from Bristol. After sailing down the coast of Brazil and rounding Cape Horn, he made for the deserted island of Juan Fernandez to seek shelter from a severe storm. There Rogers rescued the celebrated Alexander Selkirk, a Scot who had been marooned several years before by Captain Stradling during Dampier's earlier voyage, and who has been immortalized as the prototype for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. An account of Selkirk's true adventures is given. The expedition then cruised the coast of Peru, taking various prizes, reached California, and crossed the Pacific to Asia. The high point of this circumnavigation was the capture of the Manila galleon, in 1709, at Puerto Seguro. A bit of Rogers' Spanish plunder is offered in the Appendix." (Hill)

"It is a work of great interest and possesses a quaint humor that renders it delightful reading. In many respects the voyage was a notable one, but in none more than this, that with a mongrel crew, and with officers often mutinous, good order and discipline were maintained throughout." (Cox)


Paper Size: ~ 5" by 7 3/4"


Paper Type or Special Features: Buccaneering Volume with 5 Folding Maps & Engravings

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