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Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10

Stephen Taylor

The Indian Ocean, 1809. At stake: Britain's commercial lifeline to India and naval supremacy. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and Conquest brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women and children caught at sea in hurricanes, and those who survived to drive the French from the Eastern seas. All shared a need to prove themselves - to make a career, or a fortune, or a marriage - in places which could be at once magnificent and terrifying.

Classification : History
Pub Date : SEP 4, 2008
Imprint : Faber Non-Fiction
Page Extent : 416
Binding : PB
ISBN : 9780571224678
Price : INR 1,299

Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor grew up in South Africa, and after moving to Britain worked as a foreign correspondent for The Times in Africa, Asia and Australia. He is the author of several celebrated books on Africa, including The Mighty Nimrod and Livingstone's Tribe: A Journey from Zanzibar to the Cape. The Caliban Shore was called 'a wonderful book' by Paul Theroux and his most recent book, Storm and Conquest, was called 'a triumph . . . a ripping yarn founded on original research' in the Guardian.

Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10

Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor

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