Nathaniel's Nutmeg
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg
| Full title | Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History |
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| Author | Giles Milton |
| Published | 1999 |
| Pages | 394 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Milton’s account of the seventeenth-century spice wars — the Banda Islands, Nathaniel Courthope’s defence of Run, and the swap that traded it to the Dutch for Manhattan. A trade story where the commodity is a single tree that grew in one place. |
Where I heard about it
- The replies to @typesfast — named in the thread asking “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025); the full set of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Historical Futurism — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.