1st UK edition of the 1968 US original. (8), 337 PP with decorations and map by Samuel H. Bryant. Title page: vignette of an East Indiaman. Eps: Map of the route followed by the East Indiamen. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Note on dedication page and name of previous owner on preliminary page. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. Historic novel. Naval Service of the East India Company during the Napoleonic wars.

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Title: THE EAST INDIAMAN
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton. London. .
Publication Date: 1969
ISBN 10: 0340042982
ISBN 13: 9780340042984
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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In January, 1806, twenty-eight-year-old Percival Merewether was promoted from First Lieutenant to Captain, one of the youngest men in the long history of the East India Company's Naval Service to attain this rank. His first command was the sloop Rapid, a fast ex-slaver armed with 10 nine-pounders.THE EAST INDIAMAN encompasses the first year of his captaincy - as eventful and action-packed a year as any ambitious young captain could have wished. His cool head and his courage were taxed to the full in skirmished with french warships, pirate dhows, mutinies and diplomatic intrigues.This immensely vigorous, brisk and salty story brilliantly portrays the type of man whose thrusting bravery and nautical expertise carved out and held an empire.

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Ellis K. Meacham (1913-1998) was a Commander in the US Naval Reserve serving as a gunnery officer in the Pacific during the Second World War. He was an attorney in Chattanooga from 1937 to 1972, when he became a judge in the Chattanooga Municipal Court. He won the "Friends of American Writers Major Award in Fiction" in 1969 for THE EAST INDIAMAN.

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