Author: Clark, Cumberland
Title: Britain Overseas - The Story Of The Foundation And Development Of The British Empire From 1497 To 1921
Description: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1924, 1st edition. Cloth, P+. [viii]+339pp, folding map, index, foxed throughout, upper board splashed with white paint, a reading copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A good single volume history of the British Empire, by an author better known for his doggrel - so much so he is sometimes known as the Dorset McGonagall. ‘If you go to the Boscombe Arcade / No excitement you’ll meet I’m afraid / You won’t find the place is a tax on your strength / Four hundred and forty three feet is its length' ( from 'Boscombe Arcade' ).

Keywords: history, british history, british empire, colonialism, travel, maritime