SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

In this volume I have to invite the reader to consider a special epoch of the worlds 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 brimful of romance of adventures travel and the exciting pursuit after wealth It is a theme which for all its deeply human aspect is one for ever dominated...Seguir leyendo