Spice of life Ferdinand Magellan’s “voyage to the western and eastern India”, depicted in a 16th-century engraving, was in part driven by the obsession with exotic goods such as nutmeg (inset)
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Spice: The 16th ‐Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
by Roger Crowley Yale University Press, 320 pages, £20