A Cruising Voyage Around the World
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Introduction Part 1
53:53 -
Introduction Part 2 and Dedication
55:10 -
Ireland to Caribbean
45:04 -
Caribbean to Grande
43:13 -
Account of Brazile
39:53 -
Account of River of La Plata
62:55 -
From Grande to Juan Fernandez
40:22 -
Account of Alexander Selkirk
14:21 -
Juan Fernandez to Lobos and Northward
41:07 -
At Guiaquil Part 1
51:00 -
At Guiaquil Part 2
53:50 -
Island of Gorgona
49:52 -
Island of Gorgona part 2 and Galapagos Islands
43:35 -
Off Mexico
51:13 -
Off California
51:32 -
Mexico describ'd
39:39 -
Peru and Chili describ'd
56:54 -
To the East Indies
55:35 -
East Indies to the Cape of Good Hope
49:07 -
Cape of Good Hope; to Holland and London
34:46
A Cruising Voyage Around the World (1732) is a public domain work.
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Shipboard decisions, coastal trade and imperial rivalry share the page in Woodes Rogers's account of a voyage around the world. The expedition sailed between 1708 and 1711 in the Duke and Dutchess, two armed merchant ships financed by Bristol investors. An introduction places the venture within the War of the Spanish Succession, when English privateers sought both commercial opportunities and gains at their opponents' expense.
The voyage's daily record includes anchorages, winds and distances, then broadens into descriptions of the places encountered. A passage on Guiaquil examines colonial offices, officials' wealth and restrictions on commerce between Peru and Mexico. Rogers connects these arrangements to English and French trading interests. Readers interested in maritime history can follow the practical concerns of a sailing expedition alongside an English captain's judgments about money, government and overseas trade.
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