Author: Milton, Giles

Price: $6.45

Category:Business & Money
Publication Date:1999-05-12T00:00:01Z
Pages:400
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:0374219362
ISBN:13:9780374219369
In 1616, Nathaniel Courthope was dispatched to Run, the most lucrative of the Spice Islands to hold off the massive Dutch Navy. But after a four-year siege, Britain ceded the island and its lucrative spice trade to Holland--in exchange for Manhattan.