Giles Milton is a British writer and journalist born in Buckinghamshire in 1966.
He has contributed articles for many British newspapers and several foreign publications, and specialises in the history of travel and exploration. In the course of research, he has travelled in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Japan, the Far East, and North and South America.
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg provides an account of Nathaniel Courthope and the Spice Wars of the 1600s in Indonesia, and mostly of the conflict between the Dutch and the English.
Big Chief Elizabeth is a historical account of early English voyages to the "New World", particularly the vanished colonists of Roanoke Island, in the Outer Banks of modern-day North Carolina. As well as retelling their story, it theorizes possible explanations for the cause of the disappearance.
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