Hardly a fun fact... A work of fiction... Alexander - back to silk (and peanuts).
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:49:37 +0100 David van Ooijen <[email protected]> wrote: > Giles Milton > 'Samurai William' > (Hodder and Stoughton, 2002) > > William Keeling, captain on a ship in a fleet sailing from England to > the East in 1615, send to Sir Thomas Roe, first British Ambassador in > India and aboard one of the other ships, a sheep, 100 Weymouth oysters > and some silk strings for his viol. Sir Thomas was pleased, as he send > captain Keeling a set of six Italian madrigals in return. > > The book is not great literature, I believe Giles Milton received some > fame with a previous book "Nathaniel's Nutmeg", but the facts seem to > be well researched. There is a list of sources, for those interested. > > David - back to gut (and oyters!) > > > -- > ******************************* > David van Ooijen > [email protected] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > ******************************* > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
