The East India Company and its Maritime Service 1600 - 1834
By Richard Woodman.

This special edition consists of 500 copies, of which this is no 74.

2 volumes, signed.

Please note these books are heavy and postage will be expensive.
Each volume is 210mm x 300mm x 40mm

“Woodman rescues these tremendous early mercantile voyages from obscurity and reminds us that Britain’s rise to global power emerged from mercantile, not naval, seafaring” https://www.historicnavalfiction.com

Captain Richard Martin Woodman LVO MNM (10 March 1944 – 2 October 2024) was an English merchant navy officer, novelist and naval historian. Woodman served at sea mainly working for Trinity House and retired in 1997 from a 37-year nautical career, to write full-time. He published a series of fictional stories, as well as researching and writing several non-fictional historical books on maritime topics. Woodman published over 70 books, including historical studies, novels and novellas.

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and Hong Kong. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at certain times.

R1,750