Buy this book on-line MEACHAM,ELLIS K**: : The East Indiaman.**LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1969. ISBN 0340042982.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,assumed price-clip(?) to top,front,inner dw/dj flap.Colour, pictorial illustrated dw/dj by Studio Stead with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges.Closed tear, approx 1.50" with internal,sello repair to top front edge,minimally bumped with miniscule creasing and rubbing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip which appears
unfaded,rear top corner minisculely rubbed.Top edge coloured purple,fore-edge very,very lightly aged and generally clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to pages' corners.Unblemished, plain green cloth bds
with a bright,stamped gilt silhouette of stern of company ship to upper bd's lower,
right corner and bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with clean line
illustrated,map eps by Studio Stead.8vo, 4-337pp includes half-title+b/w line illustrated title pages,b/w line illustrations chapter head-pieces,41 chapters and a 1pp biblio to rear.
The East Indiaman is the story of a man who was a leader of men.It is the story of
the men he led,the ship he sailed,and of the Crown and Company he served.The Naval Service of the East India Company operated
from the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea, from Calcutta to Canton.The Company ships were famous for their speed and daring and the 'Bombay Buccaneers' who sailed them were the stuff of legend, then
as now.Out of this story of wars,mutinies,
piracy,fever and diplomatic intrigue,and from the documented history of the Service
in the period 1805-09, Ellis K. Meacham has created a notable chronicle of maritime adventure, following the career of Percival Merewether, a junior Captain in the Service, whose decisions are sometimes mistaken,often hasty and always subject to the imponderables of fate.The author's first venture into fiction was an attempt to provide an ending for Hornblower During the Crisis, left unfinished by C. S. Forester's death in 1966,but the provisions of Forester's will
precluded publication,with the outcome that Meacham turned to writing a sea story
on his own account - see rja2813/7.
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