I'm marginally ill today - mild fever, slight achiness, low energy - and because of that, I'm disappointed that I've already finished Giles Milton's Nathaniel's Nutmeg: or, the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History. Because this, my friends, is my v...
2010 bookcrossing review:This was a really interesting read. I didn´t realise when I picked it up, but Samurai William - William Adams, was the guy who inspired the character in the book which was then turned into the tv series Shogun... that was a roundabout way of describing it... but anyway. T...
High 5. Milton has produced a more entertaining follow-up to his previous outing in charting the history of Elizabethan voyages of discovery to America. Cabot's discoveries in 1497 had sparked intense interest in the possible riches to be made across the Atlantic, and even during the reign of Hen...