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The story of sea captain and privateer Woodes Rogers who set sail in 1708 on his commissioned three-year raiding voyage to the South Sea and around the world on the ships Duke and Dutchess. Documented with liberal quotations from the ships' logs, from Rogers' journal and from other contemporary sources, this book tells of their operations and sea engagements, as well as the rescue from the Juan Fernandez islands of the marooned Alexander Selkirk, who served as the prototype for Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.