Buy this book on-line BLAKE, CLAGETTE: : Charles Elliot RN 1801-1875 - A Servant of Britain OverseasLONDON.CLEAVER-HUME PRESS,1960. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,Crown Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Pictorial map illustrated dw/dj,with slight rubbing/fading to edges and slight creasing to head+foot dw/dj's spine/backstrip,which is also faded.Blue cloth boards with gilt facsimile of Elliot's signature to upper board.Pale blue panel and gilt letters to spine/backstrip.Top edge slightly dusty/aged,fore-edges untrimmed.UK, Crown Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xvipp+130pp,b/w frntis,b/w maps and contemporary illus and errata slip.
This life of Admiral Sir Charles Elliot,nephew of the first Earl of Minto,is chiefly interesting as showing the kind of man who carried out British policy when the Empire was approaching its Victorian heyday.In the early nineteenth century - Elliot volunteered for the Navy in 1815 - British officers were often called upon to make crucial decisions and to shoulder the most surprising burdens in far countries,and did so,on the whole,with honour and competence.Charles Elliot was for the last half of his life virtually in the service of the Foreign or the Colonial Office and had a hand in marginal history from the abolition of slavery to the Opium War and Texan independence; and was Governor successively of Bermuda,Trinidad and St. Helena.This book is most attractively illustrated and historians will notice that the very full documentation raises many intriguing points for those interested in the rise of the Victorian Empire.
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