Kenneth McPherson shows that for millennia the Indian Ocean had a profound influence on the lives of the people who lived on its shores. Fishermen, sailors and merchants traveled its waters linking the world's earliest civilizations from Africa to East Asia in a complex web of relationships. The ocean was also a highway for the exchange of religions, cultures and technologies, giving the Indian Ocean region an identity as a largely self-contained "world." This important study traces the history of the Indian Ocean from ages past to the present day.
- ISBN10 0195642430
- ISBN13 9780195642438
- Publish Date 1 February 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 March 2010
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 338
- Language English