Woodes Rogers 
A Cruising Voyage Around the World 

This book is a great primary source into long voyages around the world and what occurred and was found along the way. The sea has always been the cradle of the Britain, and over six hundred years ago an old chronicler who was also an adventure wrote in this book the great sea tradition that ‘English ships visited every coast, ‘ and that ‘English sailors excelled all others both in the arts of navigation and in fighting.’