Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 Interest_Nautical Six beautifully illustrated and gold-foiled

Six beautifully illustrated and gold-foiled designs printed on both sides

This simple hot beverage is suffused with artistic and religious overtones

it comes with double-ended washable fabric pens for endless creativity

Comets and Asteroids - winner

Sanghera puts to bed the conventional balance-sheet view of imperial history where the good is merely weighed up against the bad

Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 Interest_Nautical Six beautifully illustrated and gold-foiledThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Companyfrom Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutchto laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for new forms of investment, not least in risky overseas enterprisesand for these adventurers the