[JDPUB: 91] NEW BOOKS: The Route to Prester John and The Rape of Tawantinsuyo by Ed Tilston

THE ROUTE TO PRESTER JOHN and The Rape of Tawantinsuyo by Ed Tilston have just been published by Just Done Productions Publishing 

 

THE ROUTE TO PRESTER JOHN      R140

It’s the middle of the fifteenth century. A flat earth has become round and the new ability to establish latitude at sea persuades a few intrepid mariners to venture ever farther into unknown waters. The fearful cape at Bojador has been conquered, opening the way for the great age of exploration. Impatient to find a route to the Spice Islands and join forces with Prester John, Prince Henry the Navigator sends one little ship after another to explore the uncharted West Coast of Africa.

 

Carlos Melo embarks on the Mariagalante as second mate and puts to sea to carry out Prince Henry’s commands. Explore the African coast with him, meet alien peoples, witness bizarre customs, and trade for gold. Join him in his battle with mutineers, his odyssey in the open ocean in a longboat, his contest with Berber pirates.

 

As a sequel to his previous seafaring novels BOJADOR and PINZON, Ed Tilston has written another salty tale to stir your imagination and take you on a fascinating voyage of discovery with the early mariners.

Enjoy the journey!

 

• FICTION: MARITIME ADVENTURE
• Size: A5
• Publication Date: 30 October 2008
• Number of Pages: 188
• Lulu ID: 4692947
• ISBN 13: 978-1-920315-20-7
• Cover Type: Paperback
• Binding: Perfect Bound

The Rape of Tawantinsuyo    R140

Captain Alonso Pinzon arrives in Hispaniola in 1530, in time to see ships calling there homeward bound from Mexico laden with fantastic treasure. He learns of an even richer land, an Eldorado, far to the south on the shores of the newly discovered Pacific Ocean.

Disgusted with the brutal treatment of the local Indians in the islands by the Spaniards he decides to join the expedition led by Francisco Pizarro. Crossing the Isthmus of Panama, he assumes command of the Vencedor and, with two other caravels laden with men, horses, and materiel, sails in convoy to the south. On arrival in Tawantinsuyo, he marches with the expedition through the coastal desert and across the soaring ramparts of the Andes to Cajamarca where he witnesses the bloody massacre of over 4000 unarmed Indians and the capture of Inca Atahualpa.

The continuing brutality of his fellow Spaniards forces him to leave the expedition, find a ship and return to Panama. En route he joins forces with Francisco de Orellana and labors over the Andes again to search for the “Land of Cinnamon.” Descending the eastern slopes of the cordillera, he enters the tropical jungle and reaches the headwaters of the Amazon, where he builds a primitive sailing ship and sails 4000 miles down the river to its delta.

Travel with Alonso in his primitive brigantine downriver where he is attacked by Amazon women, meets with tribes of head-hunters, witnesses strange practices, encounters mysterious plants and animals... Eight months after entering the river Alonso reaches the Atlantic and sails north back to the Caribbean and a voyage home.

Alternating chapter by chapter with Alonso’s story is the tale of Manco, an Inca noble.

• FICTION: MARITIME ADVENTURE
• Cover Type: Paperback
• ISBN 13: 978-1-920315-19-1
• Lulu ID: 4508206
• Number of Pages: 258
• Publication Date: 16 October 2008
• Size: A5

G. Edwin Tilston was born and educated in England. He served as pilot in the RAF and RN. He acted as agent for ships in the deep-sea and coastwise trades in Brazil, Peru (where he also served as honorary British Consul), Trinidad, New Orleans and New York. An American citizen, he now lives with his wife, Elizabeth Ellen Churchill, in the beautiful North Carolina Mountains.

 

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