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Maritime Trade History

Nick Collins
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The history they got wrong. Essays on maritime trade, ancient India, and the decisions that made and destroyed civilisations. By Nick Collins - Cambridge-educated historian, forty years in shipping.

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When the Sea Took Half the World

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    Maritime historian | Author of ‘How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World' | Essays on maritime trade, ancient India, and the decisions that made and destroyed civilisations

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