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Paperback. Condizione: Good. 388 pages. spine cocked, text lightly tannedThe tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indones ian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the mos t lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle betwe en 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 i n the history of the colonial powers.…