The Old East Indiamen

The Old East Indiamen

E. Keble Chatterton

Språken
Förlaganboco
ISBN9783736420373

In this volume I have to invite the reader to consider a special epoch of the world's progress, in which the sailing ship not only revolutionised British trade but laid the foundations of, and almost completed, that imposing structure which is to-day represented by the Indian Empire. It is a period