Spice, by Roger Crowley, is a narrative history about discovery and long-distance trade between 1511 and 1571, primarily ...
They conquered Malacca in August that year. One of his friends carried on to the Spice Islands. The letters he sent to Magellan about the place would change the explorer's life. Back in Portugal ...
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan first arrived here about 500 years ago, cruising through Tierra del Fuego's remote straits on a quest for Asian spices. And in the 1800s, Charles Darwin ...