Cowley's Voyage Round the Globe

IN PRINT FOR THE FIRST TIME

A complete account of Cowley's adventures RECONSTRUCTED from different original source versions (all produced by Cowley himself)l.

William Ambrosia Cowley accidentally sailed into the history books in August 1683 when he boarded the Defense thinking he would navigate the ship on a trading expedition to Haiti. In reality, he had been tricked into joining a pirating expedition that would take him from England to Virginia to Africa, around Cape Horn, up and down the western coast of the Americas, and across the Pacific Ocean into the East Indies (Guam, Philippines, China, Java), around the Cape of Good Hope and back to England. In three and a half years he circumnavigated the globe, making Cowley just the third Englishman to accomplish that feat, and the first in a hundred years.

This reluctant pirate sailed with the likes of William Dampier, Basil "Baz" Ringrose, Captain Eaton, Captain Swan and Captain Edward Cook. He was one of the first Englishman to draw up a map of the Galapagos Islands, giving English names to many of the islands, and naming one after himself. In the Galapagos today, the tiny Cowley's Enchanted Island is still known as Isla Cowley.

Inside you'll find Cowley's own astounding account of his years among the most notorious pirates of his age. Be prepared for a fascinating, sometimes shocking, first-hand glimpse into the pirating and sailing life of the seventeenth-century.

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Vol. 1. A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier

Vol. 2. Supplement of the Voyage Round the World by William Dampier

Vol. 3. Two Voyages to Campeachy by William Dampier

Vol. 4. A Discourse of Winds by William Dampier

Vol. 5. A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier

Vol. 6. A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier

Vol. 7. The Adventures of William Dampier: Being William Dampier's Unpublished Journal (Sloan MS. 3236) by William Dampier

Vol. 8. William Dampier's Atlas &c. A Collection of Maps. A Glossary. A Catalog of Old and New Place Names. Dampier's Who's Who. A Brisk Biography.

Vol. 9. A Booty of Words. A Dictionary Devoted to the Linguistic Treasure Contributed to the English Language by the Pirate William Dampier

Vol. 10. Wafer's New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of Darien by Lionel Wafer

Vol. 11. Cowley's Voyage Round the Globe by William Ambrosia Cowley

Vol. 12. Baz Ringrose's Journal Into the South Seas by Basil Ringrose

Vol. 13 William Dick's South Sea Voyage by William Dick (aka William Williams)

Vol. 14. Captain Sharp's Journey Over the Isthmus of Darien and Expedition Into the South Seas by Bartholomew Sharp

Vol. 15. The Voyage and Adventures of Bartholomew Sharp and Others in the South Seas by Anonymous

Vol. 16. Funnell's A Voyage Round the World. Containing an Account of Captain Dampier's Expedition Into the South-Seas in the Ship St George, In the Years 1703 and 1704 by William Funnell. Includes: William Dampier's Vindication by William Dampier

Vol. 17. Woodes Rogers' Cruising Voyage Round the World by Woodes Rogers

Vol. 18. Woodes Rogers' Life Aboard a British Privateer by Woodes Rogers

Vol. 19. Edward Cooke's A Voyage to the South Seas and Round the World by Captain Edward Cooke