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Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705?

LC control no.n 85310996
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingWafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705?
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Associated countryAfrica
Panama
Asia
Associated placeLondon (England)
Place of birthEngland
AffiliationGrande Ana (ship)
Profession or occupationSurgeon
Buccaneer
Found inHis A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America, 1699: t.p. (Lionel Wafer)
DNB (Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705?; buccaneer)
LC data base, 3/18/86 (hdg.: Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705?)
Viaje y descripción del Itsmo del Darién, 2012: title page (Lionel Wafer) cover front flap (surgeon; in 1679 joined a pirate ship to the Americas where he stayed for two decades; left the pirate life at the end of the 17th century and published his memoires about his experiences in England and were later translated into French, Dutch, German and Swedish) page 17 (born in England; spent part of his youth in the northern part of Ireland and Scotland; in 1677 became a surgeon on the merchant ship Grande Ana in London and later went to Asia and Africa)
Associated languageeng dut fre ger spa swe