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 tobe told.