The East India Company's Maritime Service, 1746-1834

The East India Company's Maritime Service, 1746-1834
Author: Jean Sutton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1843835835

The book charts in detail successive voyages by members of the Larkins family, who were leading owners of East India Company ships, showing what it was like to sail to and trade with India in this period. It provides a great deal of material on trade, warfare, developments in seamanship and navigation, the opening up of trade to China, and much more.