Full of risk, adventure and heroic action on the one hand, with exploitation, skull-duggery and piracy on the other, this volume carries the reader from the appearance of the merchant ships of Tudor England on the world's oceans in defiance of Spain's mighty sea-borne empire, to the end of the Seven Years War, with a full account of the slave-trade until its abolition in 1807. Piracy intermingled with privateering in the Caribbean and Indian Seas; slaving with its dreadful consequences; the early ventures of the East India Companies of England and Scotland whose story is entangled in the Union of the two countries and the opening of trade with China, are part of this momentous, surprising and revealing history. The Princess Royal has written the Foreward to this edition. "If Neptune's Trident sets the standard for what is to follow - we can at least rest assured that there is a series that truly does justice to our proud merchant maritime past" Nautilus UK Telegraph, December 2008
- ISBN10 0750967218
- ISBN13 9780750967211
- Publish Date 1 November 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The History Press Ltd
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 368
- Language English