Travel and History

Nathaniel’s Nutmeg

People were nuts over nutmeg and it actually started a war between England and Holland — and even led to a British invasion

Warriors of the Tanimbar Islands. Image credit: By Tropenmuseum, part of the National Museum of World Cultures, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8599302

For the last few weeks we’ve been in the Spice Islands (aka the Moluccas or Maluku Islands) after sailing about 300 miles up from Darwin, North Australia.