In 1957 Fleming wrote his sixth James Bond book, Doctor No -- in which the eponymous villain runs a guano mine in the Caribbean. Even some decades after the Ha

In 1957 Fleming wrote his sixth James Bond book, Doctor No -- in which the eponymous villain runs a guano mine in the Caribbean. Even some decades after the Haber–Bosch process was invented, stripping massive islands of these resources was still lucrative.