Saggi: L'isola della noce moscata
Come avventurieri, pirati e mercanti di spezie cambiarono la storia del mondo
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The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by the intrepid Nathaniel Courthope. The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland, but in return was given another small island, Manhattan. A brilliant adventure story of unthinkable hardship and savagery, the navigation of uncharted waters, and the exploitation of new worlds, Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a remarkable chapter in the history of the colonial powers.
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Saggi: L'isola della noce moscata, Giles Milton, Sergio Mancini
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
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- Titel
- Saggi: L'isola della noce moscata
- Untertitel
- Come avventurieri, pirati e mercanti di spezie cambiarono la storia del mondo
- Sprache
- Italienisch
- Autor*innen
- Giles Milton, Sergio Mancini
- Verlag
- Rizzoli
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 373
- ISBN10
- 8817125377
- ISBN13
- 9788817125376
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Karten & Reisen, Reisen, Abenteuer, Essen, Asien, Reisen
- Bewertung
- 3,5 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by the intrepid Nathaniel Courthope. The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland, but in return was given another small island, Manhattan. A brilliant adventure story of unthinkable hardship and savagery, the navigation of uncharted waters, and the exploitation of new worlds, Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a remarkable chapter in the history of the colonial powers.