Abstract

CERVERA MOLINA, ANA ELVIRA. The reformed buccaneer as a cartographer: space and territory along the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. Hist. Caribe [online]. 2020, vol.15, n.37, pp.23-49.  Epub July 14, 2021. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.37.2020.03.

William Dampier was an abundant provider of ethno-botanical narratives that fed the English imagination in Europe during 18th century. With a dark past as a mercenary sailor, between 1675 and 1678, Dampier visited Central America with special focus on the bays of Campeche and Honduras. In his trip, he described everything of interest that, in his opinion, could be in the landscape. Although meticulously detailed and illustrated with maps, his narrative and the consequent accompanying drawings were filled with silences related to the Mayan population, who inhabited the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Keywords : William Dampier; Campeche; travels; pirates; space; Caribbean.

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