A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World is a 1712 book by Edward Cooke, about a real-life circumnavigation of the Earth in two ships, under the command of Woodes Rogers.

It is notable for including a firsthand account of castaway Alexander Selkirk, whose tale appears to have helped inspire Daniel Defoe to write his 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe.

Among these are their own privateering (pirating), the expedition of ships capturing many other vessels ostensibly from targets of the English crown, and an early documentation of the Galápagos Islands later made famous by Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle.

In June of 1718, Queen Anne's Revenge — the ship of famous pirate Blackbeard — ran aground on a sandbar at Beaufort Inlet off the coast of North Carolina and lost until rediscovered in 1996.

[4][5] As part of the artifact assemblage a breech chamber, likely originally associated with a breech-loading swivel gun, was recovered still loaded with powder and wadding used to make a seal around a tampion.