Amboina, 1623: Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire by Adam Clulow

Amboina, 1623: Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire

Adam Clulow

312 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative slow-paced
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In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizō was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now eastern Indonesia. When he failed to provide an ade...

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