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A History of the British Merchant Navy " Neptune 's Trident": Spices and Slaves 1500-1507 a new book by Richard Woodman. It is being published on 30th November (Ready for Christmas) ISBN # 9780752448145 The price at Waterstones is quoted as £25 but I see it is already advertised on "tinternet"

History Press
http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=7613&ProductID=7812

The review is as follows

Neptune's Trident is a dazzlingly detailed account of a forgotten, yet major aspect of British history. Full of risk, adventure and heroic action on the one hand, with exploitation, skull-duggery and piracy on the other, this first of five volumes carries the reader from the emergence of Tudor England on the world stage in defiance of Spain's sea-borne empire, to the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, with an account of the slave-trade until its abolition in 1807. Prize-winning maritime author Richard Woodman restores Great Britain 's mercantile marine to its rightful place in the nation's history - alongside that of the Royal Navy, to whose glories it contributed - but not buried beneath it. Truly this is a surprising history.