El Mar del Sur : the Spanish lake -- "The world encompassed" : Drake and his successors -- Geographical enigmas and literary utopias -- "They were not come out to go upon discovery" : buccaneers and interlopers in the South Sea -- "I speak as to the compass of my own knowledge" : Dampier's explorations and writings -- The "cruising voyages" of Dampier and Rogers -- "A gross, palpable illusion" : the founding of the South Sea Company -- The age of the bubble (1) : castaways and projectors -- The age of the bubble (2) : voyages real and fictitious -- "Our second Drake" : Anson's circumnavigation -- Widening horizons.