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

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 work tells the story of how England came to own Manhattan in the seventeenth century.