Full name: Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

Author: Giles Milton Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Travel, Biographies, Adventure Culture: Asia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780340696767 0340696761

In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This infuriated the Dutch, who were determined to control the world's nutmeg supply. For five years Courthope and his band of thirty men were besieged by a force one hundred times greater - and his heroism set in motion the events that led to the founding of the greatest city on earth. A beautifully told adventure story and a fascinating depiction of exploration in the seventeenth century, NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG sheds a remarkable light on history Similar books: The Spice Route by John Keay Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset Catastrophe by David Keys Civilization by Roger Osborne Pathfinders by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Columbus and the Age of Discovery by Zvi Dor-Ner 1688 by John E. Wills The Circumnavigators by Derek Wilson Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King The White Nile by Alan Moorehead Samurai William by Giles Milton In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Endurance by Alfred Lansing