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William Keeling,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Sir Henry Garraway,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Sir Christopher Clitherow
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Apart from a very limited amount of state sponsorship, it was usually the prospect of commercial gain or of new lands for settlement which funded exploration – a misleading term, which usually signified the ‘mapping’ of existing trade paths through local informants. But the propulsion of economic or demographic need was spasmodic at best.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
the Edward Bonaventure.