Spice, by Roger Crowley, is a narrative history about discovery and long-distance trade between 1511 and 1571, primarily ...

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 ...

The facts speak otherwise. Magellan’s crew sought a westward route from Europe to the “Spice Islands” for prized cloves and other spices, more accurately the Maluku (Moluccas) in what is ...