Amanda Johnson's Reviews > Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

** spoiler alert ** This is an utterly fascinating book - and I loved all the original sources. But I was disappointed that Nathaniel didn’t surface until page 271 and was gone again by page 306! Also although infinitely better than the Dutch , I not sure that Nathaniel isn’t over described as a thoroughly good guy - full of derring do.
I had to skip all the torture scenes but important to know they happened....
The scene in the epilogue with the flickering re runs of American tv is totally heart -breaking . I thought it had a very important message for our times.... scent of nutmeg there might have been , but the picture of ruin , hacked spice trees and burnt land remains in the mind. Such is the price of greed and exploitation.