Spice Islands

The author (right) with the sister of the Sultan of Ternate and her son

Ian and Yusra Burnet at the Periplus Bookshop in Jakarta

 Ian Burnet has spent more than twenty years, living, working and travelling in the Indonesian archipelago in his professional career as a geologist/geophysicist.

 Fascinated by the history of the archipelago, he thought the story of the tiny islands of Ternate and Tidore, and their effect on world history had to be told.

Ian lives with his family in Sydney, Australia