13 black & white maps, including one folding, xiv + 355pp, bibliography, index, an ex library copy with the usual markings but a very clean, sound and firm copy. Pioneer Histories Series. "It would be difficult to make dull any narrative of early ventures to the East - so picturesque were the surroundings, so great the hazards, so marvellous the bravery and endurance of those pioneers of commerce. But the story gains in depth and value when it is told, not as a jumble of disconnected experiments, but as a drama of sustained effort, extending over more than a century, to establish trade between our own small island and the vast and populous empires of the Orient, at the time supposed to be full of riches." (From preface). Seller Inventory # 178443

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Bibliographic Details

Title: England's Quest of Eastern Trade.

Publisher: A. & C. Black, Ltd., London.

Publication Date: 1933

Edition: First English Edition.

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Asia Bookroom is a specialised bookseller in Canberra, the capital of Australia. We specialise in books on Asia with smaller sections on the Pacific and the Middle East. We issue over 30 regular lists featuring recent arrivals of books and other paper material in our specialist areas. Our lists are available by e-mail, in printed form by post or by browsing our web page. Please let us know if you would like to be on our mailing list. We run a bricks and mortar premises in a commercial area which you are most welcome to visit. We are open by appointment or by chance. Our hours are posted for the following week on our website www.AsiaBookroom.com

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Weekend Gallery Books T/A Asia Bookroom
c/o Business Innovations, PO Box 4896, Kingston, ACT, 2604, Australia

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