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Roger Crowley’s Spice tells the gripping story of the 16th-century race for control of the spice trade – a contest that reshaped the world. As cloves and nutmeg promised unimaginable wealth, Spanish and Portuguese explorers set out to find their source, leading to daring voyages, shipwrecks, sieges, and the birth of global trade. From Seville’s dockyards to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, the Arctic Circle and the coast of China, join him for a thrilling account of how this fierce maritime rivalry forged empires, linked oceans, and laid the foundations of the modern world.