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Oxford University Press Very Ingenious Man Claude Martin In Early Colonial India by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
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.