Book review: The Nutmeg’s Curse, by Amitav Ghosh

“Do not tell yourself that you already know its contents, because you don’t,” says the Naomi Klein endorsement on the back of The Nutmeg’s Curse, by Amitav Ghosh. It made me smile, because I read a lot of books about climate change and they do tend to fall into a pattern. Man runs the numbers and tells us what we should do; journalist visits a series of vulnerable places, etc. Klein is entirely right about this one. In terms of content and of depth, there’s nothing quite like it.

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