Book on Old Sailing Ships: The East Indiamen: Dutch East Indies; Spice Trade

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Book on Old Sailing Ships: The East Indiamen: Dutch East Indies; Spice Trade :
$12.99

Title; The East Indiamen , by Russell Miller

Nice high-quality edition with deep blue faux-leather covers, well illust. with many color paintings, drawings, and photographs.

Title page illust: The Dutch Indiaman \"Vryburg\", on a plate of 1756. Endpapers: Map of the world plyed by the East Indiamen.

This is the story of the company ships and men who raced incessantly to the Far East, to try to plunder the wealth of the Orient, a wealth, once acquired, was to guarantee huge profits for the English East India Company, Dutch East India Company, United East India Company and French East India Company. The race for silk, spices, opium, tea, porcelain and cotton.

Contents include:

An all-out race for the Orient\'s wealth;
No trade without war, no war without trade;
A seaman\'s lot: misery, danger and empty pockets
An empire brewed from the tea leaves
A passage to India
The splendid facade of a crumbling company
The Man who told Portugal\'s Secrets to the world
A priestly foothold in fabled Japan
Extraordinay ships in exotic commerce
Etc.

Part of the Time-Life; The Seafarers series.

(no highlighting, notes, marks, etc.)

12x10 Hardcover, in excellent condition, 200 pgs, 1980.