Reviews for History of Sailing Ships

The average rating for History of Sailing Ships based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-10-19 00:00:00 David Hughes Come, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of prime ministers. The sixth edition of A New History of India gives a chiefly political, mostly modern history of one of the world's most ancient civilizations, and consists mostly of fighting and politics (which is like fighting, and often leads to it). I found Jawaharlal Nehru's running commentary on India in Glimpses of World History far more useful for appreciating pre-modern India, but that work has the limitation of having been completed in the late 1930s.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-02-22 00:00:00 Craig Lyon An accessible, readable general overview of Indian history from the dawn of civilization to the current day. The books aims high and almost delivers. It is a little uneven, giving a bit too much detail of the wheeling and deeling of party politics in the modern era. The writing veers back and forth between poetic and mundane. But it was comprehensive and I certainly learned much from reading it.