CN Parkinson’s Trade in the Eastern Seas, 1793-1813

In December 1937 The Spectator recommended this as a great Christmas read….huumm??!! Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books. He had worked in Singapore for some time in the University of Singapore and was influential in establishing an (at the time) very modern history of Malaya course….

Parkinson himself