A Very Ingenious Man
Claude Martin in Early Colonial India
Will be published approx. in December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
286 pages
978-0-19-565099-0 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Illustrations
4 colour illustrations, 8 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
332 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-565099-0 (9780195650990)
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