The Spice of Life - Cloves: Nature’s Little Nails - BBC Production 1983

The Spice of Life Series Traces the origins of cloves from the Spice Island Moluccan culture to its growth as a major Indonesian crop. Describes the many uses of cloves. Once thought to cure the plague, cloves originally grew only in the how Magellans search for these islands in 1519 made him the first voyager around the world, how Moluccan culture suffered destruction by Dutch traders seeking to capture the spice, and how today Zanzibar has become the world’s major source of cloves. The Spice Of Life videos here are posted in tribute to Writer, Producer and Director Lyn Gambles