WEEKEND FREEBIE If you are planning to spend time over the coming holiday period curling up with a good book, here’s one brimming with action, adventure and romance, which will entertain you for many hours. Moreover, it’s free! If you haven’t previously done so, download my historical novel Nanyang onto your Kindle or other device on November 18,19 or 20 without charge. At 700 pages in the paperback edition it is a long novel but with its many self-contained adventures it is a tome you can dip into between other activities. Or you may find it so absorbing you continue reading to the end. “Superb” is how one reviewer described Nanyang, giving it five stars. “Plenty of action and romance”, says another. It has garnered two five-star reviews and seven (Amazon and Goodreads) four-star reviews. Romance, adventure, drama, and history meld in this sweeping Asian saga -- now republished with a comprehensive guide to the book's fictional characters and historical figures.
Nanyang covers a period of 200 years during a time that saw the main European powers extend their rivalry from their immediate environs to India, South-East Asia and China, where there were strategic and economic prizes to be won. This story of love, tragedy, avarice and brutality begins in the mid seventeenth century, when Dutch soldiers and officials sent by ship from Batavia to acquire labourers for the Java settlement seize a young woman, Mei Ling from a village in Fujian, China, along with scores of men. Seventeen-year-old Mei Ling is kidnapped at the behest of a lecherous Dutch official, who organizes a mutiny when the ship's captain places her under his protection. Nanyang follows the adventures of Mei Ling and her brother, who sets out to rescue her, and their descendants amid land and sea battles of warring nations, natural disasters and rampant disease. They are caught up in historical events (in Europe as well as South-East Asia), in which notable English, Dutch and Javanese figures play their real-life roles. The story begins in China and ends soon after the founding of Singapore by Sir Stamford Raffles, who features in the book along with other personalities of the period, including Horatio Nelson and Captain James Cook. The story reaches back to the fifteenth century and the voyages of Admiral Zheng He with his fleet of the world's largest sailing ships, during which he visited foreign shores from Java to the African continent. But the main period covered is from the middle of the seventeenth century to the founding and early years of Singapore in the first half of the nineteenth century. http://www.amazon.com/Nanyang-Ian-Ste... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nanyang-Ian-...
If you are planning to spend time over the coming holiday period curling up with a good book, here’s one brimming with action, adventure and romance, which will entertain you for many hours. Moreover, it’s free!
If you haven’t previously done so, download my historical novel Nanyang onto your Kindle or other device on November 18,19 or 20 without charge. At 700 pages in the paperback edition it is a long novel but with its many self-contained adventures it is a tome you can dip into between other activities. Or you may find it so absorbing you continue reading to the end.
“Superb” is how one reviewer described Nanyang, giving it five stars. “Plenty of action and romance”, says another. It has garnered two five-star reviews and seven (Amazon and Goodreads) four-star reviews. Romance, adventure, drama, and history meld in this sweeping Asian saga -- now republished with a comprehensive guide to the book's fictional characters and historical figures.
Nanyang covers a period of 200 years during a time that saw the main European powers extend their rivalry from their immediate environs to India, South-East Asia and China, where there were strategic and economic prizes to be won. This story of love, tragedy, avarice and brutality begins in the mid seventeenth century, when Dutch soldiers and officials sent by ship from Batavia to acquire labourers for the Java settlement seize a young woman, Mei Ling from a village in Fujian, China, along with scores of men. Seventeen-year-old Mei Ling is kidnapped at the behest of a lecherous Dutch official, who organizes a mutiny when the ship's captain places her under his protection.
Nanyang follows the adventures of Mei Ling and her brother, who sets out to rescue her, and their descendants amid land and sea battles of warring nations, natural disasters and rampant disease. They are caught up in historical events (in Europe as well as South-East Asia), in which notable English, Dutch and Javanese figures play their real-life roles. The story begins in China and ends soon after the founding of Singapore by Sir Stamford Raffles, who features in the book along with other personalities of the period, including Horatio Nelson and Captain James Cook. The story reaches back to the fifteenth century and the voyages of Admiral Zheng He with his fleet of the world's largest sailing ships, during which he visited foreign shores from Java to the African continent. But the main period covered is from the middle of the seventeenth century to the founding and early years of Singapore in the first half of the nineteenth century.
http://www.amazon.com/Nanyang-Ian-Ste...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nanyang-Ian-...