Jeopardy of Every Wind

The Biography of Captain Thomas Bowrey. In 1669, fleeing a London decimated by the plague and the Great Fire, a young English child arrived, alone, at Fort St George, the first English fortress in Mughal India. The boy survived to become a maverisk merchant-mariner, an 'independent' trading on the fringes of the East India Company... This is the first ever biography of Thomas Bowrey, an important 17th-century trader whose name appears in many historical accounts of the period.