Tudor & Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation, 1485-1707 Queen's House looking up-river from the east

looking up-river from the east towards London from a point occupied after 1906 by the buildings of Greenwich Power Station

and the daring mariners who used it to explore

from the same location

Text at the top introduces Comets and Aerolites and two vignettes at the bottom show meteor showers witnessed in Europe in 1836 and at the Niagara Falls in 1833

A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house

Tudor & Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation, 1485-1707 Queen's House looking up-river from the eastThis exquisitely illustrated book delves into a tale of exploration, encounter, adventure, power, wealth and conflict. Tudor and Stuart Seafarers tells the compelling story of how a small island positioned on the edge of Europe transformed itself into the world's leading maritime power.