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| ALAM, MD. MUKHTAR Economic Development and Contemporary Geopolitics : The Indian Ocean Rim New Delhi: Om Publications, 2004. Hardcover. ; 16 x 25 cm.; pg. 232; Preface, introduction, bibliography, index, illustrations, statistical tables, maps. "The primary aim of this book is to depict the plethora of geographical and economic factors shaping the dynamics of the Indian Ocean Rim milieu and its surrounding geopolitical space. " ISBN: 818686783X ;. Fine with no dust jacket . USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3010] Book number: 22772 Click here to order or inquire at Tamarind Books, LLC. | ||
| ALLEN, PHILIP M. Self-Determination in the Western Indian Ocean New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1966. Pamphlet. 14 x 20 cm.; pg. 74.; Published in INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION, November 1966, No. 560. Map. "All seven million inhabitants of the western Indian Ocean islands share one fundamental quality: their difference from everybody else. Dispersed over a typhoon belt as broad as Europe itself, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles have passed through the same successive phases of history under similar European influences. These historical influences have had widely varying consequences for all the five isles and archipelagos. ". Good with no dust jacket . USD 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 | £UK 8 | JP¥ 1118] Book number: 14548 Click here to order or inquire at Tamarind Books, LLC. | ||
| CHOPRA, MAHARAJ K. India and the Indian Ocean : New Horizons New Delhi: Humanities Press Inc, 1982. Hardcover. 15 x 22 cm.; pg. x, 234; Introduction, bibliography, index, list of 9 maps. "The first five chapters are on the Ocean's natural scene, exploration and discovery, conflict in the ocean, the new environment that has been created, and India's strategic position in that environment. The remaining four deal with the current international issues of peace or war in the ocean, prospect of an Indian Ocean community, the regime of the ocean under the new sea law, and promise of the World Ocean with its limitless bounty.". Very Good in Good dust jacket . USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2580] Book number: 12180 Click here to order or inquire at Tamarind Books, LLC. | ||
| DOWDY, WILLIAM L. AND RUSSELL B. TROOD [EDITORS] The Indian Ocean : Perspectives on a Strategic Arena Durham: Duke University Press, 1985. Paperback. 15 x 23 cm.; pg. xvii, 613; Tables, figures, and maps; preface, notes, index, contributors. "THE INDIAN OCEAN presents convincing evidence for considering the countries surrounding the Indian Ocean as a distinct region, united by instabilities as well as mutual interests. A central concern of this book is whether stability in the region can be achieved through economic interdependence or through the formation of cooperative security arrangements."; 0822306913. Good with no dust jacket . USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 13171 Click here to order or inquire at Tamarind Books, LLC. | ||
| HART, HENRY H. Sea Road to the Indies: An Account of the Voyages and Exploits of the Portuguese Navigators Etc. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. Hardcover. Moderately chipped and soiled dust-jacket with small section missing from bottom edge front cover.; 14 x 22 cm.; pg. xii, 296; Preface, introduction, bibliography, index; maps on endpapers. An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco Da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira. "The documentation of the Emanueline era is scanty, and contemporary accounts of the Portuguese voyages still remain, for the most part, untranslated and unavailable to the student. The aim of the present volume is to fill this gap, to give a survey of the Portuguese contribution to the discovery of the Eastern world (as far as India), and to include a fuller presentation of the figure of Vasco da Gama than has heretofore been written. "; B0007DV1OO. Good in Good dust jacket . USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2580] Book number: 5251 Click here to order or inquire at Tamarind Books, LLC. | ||
| MAURITIUS Mauritius : Report for the Year 1967 London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1970. Paperback. Corner back cover creased.; 14 x 21 cm.; pg. ii, 198; Black-and-white photos, appendixes, maps.. Good with no dust jacket . USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2150] Book number: 13656 Click here to order or inquire at Tamarind Books, LLC. | ||
| OMMANNEY, F.D. The Shoals of Capricorn London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1952. Hardcover. Spine slightly cocked, previous owner's name verso front endpaper. ; 15 x 23 cm.; pg. viii, 322; List of black-and-white photos, maps on endpapers. "Between the islands of the Seychelles, four degrees south of the Equator, and Mauritius on the Tropic of Capricorn is a vast area of shoals water where the bottom in places comes to within sight of the surface. In 1947, the Colonial Office decided that the possibility of fishing there on a commercial scale must be investigated. Two scientists, therefore, were sent out; and for two years they sailed these waters in a small 45-ton drifter. One of the men was Dr. F. D. Ommanney...THE SHOALS OF CAPRICORN contains a host of reminiscenc es of these tropic seas, of calms and sudden fierce storms, of oddly assorted ship's crews and of the strange underwater world and its inhabitants. But the author is just as entertaining when he turns his attention to the land. "; B000OFLHQC. Very Good in Good dust jacket . USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 6090 Click here to order or inquire at Tamarind Books, LLC. | ||
| SUTTON, J. E. G. The East African Coast : An Historical and Archaeological Review Tanzania: Publishing House, 1968. Paperback. Very discreet ex-library stamp lower edge title-page.; Ex-Library; 14 x 22 cm.; pg. 28; Historical Association of Tanzania Paper No. 1. First published 1966. Sources and bibliography, maps. "The history of the East African coast is most conveniently studied in three main periods, divided at the coming of Islam some time after the seventh century A. D, and a the arrival of the first Portuguese expedition in 1498.". Very Good with no dust jacket . USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 860] Book number: 18340 Click here to order or inquire at Tamarind Books, LLC. |
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