Creator: Ruth Winstone
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1995-09-07
Price: £12.99
Review Years of Hope: Diaries, Letters and Papers, 1940-62 / Arrow Books Ltd:
Authors
- Edward Herrmann
- David G McCullough
Dewey code: 973.44092
RRP: £30.58
Price: £16.28
Review John Adams / Simon & Schuster:
Publication date: 1999-03-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.99
Review Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:Consider the humble jar of nutmeg pushed to the back of your kitchen cupboard, among all the other spices that you hardly ever use. Would you believe that nutmeg formed the basis for one of the most bitter international conflicts of the 17th century, and was also intimately connected to the rise to global pre-eminence of New York City? Strange but true; nutmeg was one of the most prized commodities in Renaissance Europe, and its fascinating story is told in Giles Milton's delightful book Nathaniel's Nutmeg. The book deals with the competition between England and Holland for possession of the spice- producing islands of South-East Asia throughout the 17th century. Packed with stories of heroism, ambition, ruthlessness, treachery, murder, torture and madness, Nathaniel's Nutmeg offers a compelling story of European rivalry in the Tropics, thousands of miles from home, and the mutual incomprehensibility which often comically characterised relations between the Europeans and the local inhabitants of the prized islands. At the centre of the story lies Nathaniel Courthope, a trusty lieutenant of the East India Company, who took and held the tiny nutmeg-producing island of Run in the face of overwhelming Dutch opposition for more than five years, before being treacherously murdered in 1620. Courthope's heroism led to the English taking the Dutch colony of Manhattan in revenge for the death of Courthope and the loss of Run. The subsequent peace deal between the two nations gave Holland Run and the British Manhattan; New York was born. As Milton wittily remarks, although Courthope's death "robbed England of her nutmeg, it gave her the biggest of apples". Inevitably inviting comparisons with Dava Sobel's Longitude, Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a charming story, which throws light on a spicy, neglected slice of early Europe's fascination with the East. -Jerry Brotton.
Authors
- Mark Jonathan Harris
- Deborah Oppenheimer
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-10-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: £8.99
Review Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Publication date: 2007-04-26
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.94
Review Washington's War: From Independence To Iraq: From Independence to Iraq (Great Commanders) / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Publication date: 2008-06-01
Dewey code: 943.029092
RRP: £29.95
Price: £19.76
Review Marketing Maximilian The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor / Princeton University Press:
Publication date: 2002-06-01
Dewey code: 942.0174092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £36.99
Review Aethelred II: King of England 978-1016 / The History Press LTD:
Publication date: 2006-10-03
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £10.00
Price: £9.04
Review Should Barack Obama Be President? DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, AUDACITY OF HOPE, ... Obama in '08? / Nimble Books:
Creator: James Melvin Washington
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-09-17
Dewey code: 323.092
Price: £8.99
Review I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World / HarperCollins:
Publication date: 2007-04-23
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.01
Review Charles Dickens (Very Interesting People) / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2000-03-06
Dewey code: 759.4
RRP: £45.00
Price: £32.46
Review Chardin / Yale University Press:
Publication date: 2004-09-08
Dewey code: 943
RRP: £24.90
Price: £22.43
Review A Luftwaffe Bomber Pilot Remembers: World War II from the Cockpit (Schiffer Military History) / Schiffer Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-06-09
Dewey code: 821.6
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.50
Review Burns the Radical: Politics and Poetry in Late Eighteenth-century Scotland / Tuckwell Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-05-05
Dewey code: 973.9220922
Price: £5.99
Review All Too Human: Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy / Pocket Books:
Publication date: 2003-03-28
Dewey code: 341.23092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.88
Review Never Learn to Type: A Woman at the United Nations / John Wiley & Sons:
Authors
- Antje Bultmann Lemke
- Albert Schweitzer
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1998-10-14
Dewey code: 610.92
RRP: £12.50
Price: £7.77
Review Out of My Life and Thought (Albert Schweitzer Library) / The Johns Hopkins University Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-07-10
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.85
Review Will You Die with Me?: My Life and the Black Panther Party / Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.24
Review RALPH HONNER: Kokoda Hero / ORION:
Publication date: 2006-05-25
Dewey code: 941.084092
RRP: £35.00
Price: £34.40
Review Neville Chamberlain: A Biography / Ashgate:
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £30.00
Price: £1.45
Review Remembering JFK: Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys / Andre Deutsch Ltd:
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