Hardcover. Condition: New. Language: English. About The Book -: The Periplus furnishes a most interesting part of early commercial history. Its study enables us to have a glimpse of the first record of organized trading with the nations of the East, in vessels built and commanded by subjects of the Western World. The book was originally written in the form of notes, which has been maintained in the present translations and are of great interest giving as they do in exhaustive survey of the international trade between the great empires of Rome, Parthia, India and China together with a collection of facts touching the early trade of a number of other countries of much interest. The international trade of the modern world is everyday coming more and more under exact laws of demand and supply and in this perspective study of Periplus is of added importance. About The Author -: Wilfred Harvey Schoff (18741932) was an early twentieth-century American antiquarian and classical scholar. Schoff was responsible for translating a number of important ancient texts. Among these works was the 1st century CE Greco-Roman Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, as well as the Carthaginian Periplus of Hanno. Besides writing, Schoff also served as Secretary of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum. The Title 'The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a merchant of the first century written/authored/edited by Translated by Wilfred H. Schoff', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121229906 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 333 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms 333. Seller Inventory # 1111008972294

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