A Very Ingenious Man
Claude Martin in Early Colonial India
Price: 595.00 INR
ISBN:
9780195650990
Publication date:
31/08/1999
Paperback
292 pages
216x140mm
Price: 595.00 INR
ISBN:
9780195650990
Publication date:
31/08/1999
Paperback
292 pages
Part of Oxford India Paperbacks
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Architect, soldier, surveyor, inventor, planter, botanist, financial advisor, political commentator and philanthropists, Claude Martin was one of the most fascinating adventurers associated with the East India Company in eighteenth-century India. This reissue, with a new preface, of the first full, thoroughly researched account of the life of this extraordinary individual will captivate general readers and interest historians of the early days of Empire.
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Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Description
Architect, soldier, surveyor, inventor, planter, botanist, financial advisor, political commentator and philanthropists, Claude Martin was one of the most fascinating adventurers associated with the East India Company in eighteenth-century India. This reissue, with a new preface, of the first full, thoroughly researched account of the life of this extraordinary individual will captivate general readers and interest historians of the early days of Empire.
About the Author
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Archivist and Records Officer, South Bank University, London
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Description
Architect, soldier, surveyor, inventor, planter, botanist, financial advisor, political commentator and philanthropists, Claude Martin was one of the most fascinating adventurers associated with the East India Company in eighteenth-century India. This reissue, with a new preface, of the first full, thoroughly researched account of the life of this extraordinary individual will captivate general readers and interest historians of the early days of Empire.
About the Author
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Archivist and Records Officer, South Bank University, London
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