Nathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton
Or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
A gripping account of 17th-century spice wars in which a tiny Indonesian archipelago becomes the object of deadly obsession, following an English trader's desperate defense of a nutmeg island against the militarized Dutch East India Company; the story interweaves sea-borne adventure, piracy, siege warfare and diplomacy with the ruthless strategies—massacres, forced removals and commercial monopolies—that European powers used to control global trade, and shows how the pursuit of a single spice reshaped empires and devastated the indigenous Bandanese people.
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