In this volume the author has attempted to present a remarkable era of the world's progress
through a detailed history of the old East Indiamen. It was the name given to the ships that
used to carry the trade between India and Europe. The author writes of a period in which the
sailing ship revolutionized British trade and laid the foundations of and almost finished that
imposing structure that the Indian Empire represented during the 1820s. It was a time full of
romance adventures expeditions and the thrilling pursuit of wealth. Any sailing ship working
under any East India trading companies of the central European trading powers of the 17th to
the 19th centuries was called East Indiaman. E. Keble Chatterton wrote this history brilliantly
providing every detail on the subject accurately. It is an insightful work on the 17th to
19th-century trade in Europe.
