EAST INDIES
The 200 year struggle between Portugal, the Dutch East India Co. & the English East India Co.
for supremacy in the Eastern seas Ian BurnetIn 1497 Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and the Portuguese became the first Europeans to
sail the Eastern Seas, in search of spices, silks, gold, silver, porcelains and other oriental goods. Over the next
100 years the Portuguese spread their trading network from India as far north as China and Japan, and as far
east as Timor in the eastern end of the Indonesian Archipelago.
In 1595 and 1601 respectively, the first Dutch and English trading expeditions rounded the Cape of Good
Hope and soon the trading monopoly of the Portuguese Crown was being challenged by the Dutch East India
Company and then the English East India Company, the world’s first joint stock and multi-national trading
companies.
This book follows the trade winds, the trade routes, and the port cities across the East Indies and the
Orient. The struggle for supremacy between the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English was to range across
the Eastern Seas and in the settlements of Goa, Malacca, Ambon, Macao, Canton, Nagasaki, Solor, Batavia,
Macassar, Johor and Singapore for the next 250 years. The story is told by the history of these port cities,
beginning in Malacca which was one of the world’s largest trading ports in the 16th century. and finishing with
the founding of Singapore and Hong Kong which became some of the world’s largest trading ports in the
20th century.ISBN 9781921719592, 240 pages, 240 x 180 mm, 70 colour plates, $39.95, hardcover
Paperback ISBN 9780994562753, now available $29.95
Epdf ISBN 9781922013866, Epub ISBN 9781922013873, $19.99SPICE ISLANDS Ian Burnet
Cloves and nutmeg are indigenous to the Spice Islands of Eastern Indonesia, this book tells of the many uses of these
exotic spices and the history of their trade over a period of more than 2000 years.
Backed by the Crowns of Portugal and Spain, explorers such as Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Magellan dreamt of
capturing this trade by sailing directly to the Spice Islands.
The story also revolves around the intense rivalry between the Sultans of Ternate and Tidore and their
relationship with the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English, who at different times occupied the Spice
Islands.
Ian Burnet has spent more than twenty years, living, working and travelling in the Indonesian archipelago
in his professional career as a geologist/geophysicist.
ISBN 9781922013989, 240 pages, 240 x 180 mm, 100 colour plates, pb, $29.95, paperback
Epdf ISBN 9781925078091, $19.99
Epub ISBN 9781925078107, $19.99