Word: coromandel
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Mukherjee most successfully navigates the complex historical situation in the description of the early years of the East India Company on the eastern Coromandel coast of India; little has been written, in any form, on the men who laid the foundations for the British Empire in India, who began as competitors to entrenched Portugese, French, and Dutch trade interests. Hannah has followed her husband to India where he has employed himself with the Honorable East India company...
...Zealand turn out to be anything but an ecological crusader? She got the call to action 12 years ago, when she learned that a mining company had obtained exploration rights from the government for the forest lands on her family's sheep ranch on the North Island's rugged Coromandel peninsula and was about to excavate. "I thought this was outrageous and unjust," recalls Wallace, now 39 and a lecturer in resource economics at Victoria University in Wellington. "I began to protest strongly not only about people marching onto private property but possibly destroying it as well...