Rip roaring read not lost and forgotten

June 19, 2011 - PRLog -- The discovery of the wreck several hundred years old on the Queensland coast is the basis for a story of a visit to Australia’s eastern shores by English sailors 150 years before Captain Cook.

In the tradition of Francis Drake, Howard Weston plunders the treasure of the Spaniards in the Caribbean in the early seventeenth century. Adventures off Havana, Porto Bello, and Cartegena, lead to a journey through the Straits of Magellan and along the Pacific coast of South America. There the English sack Tumbes and Panama and head across the Pacific to find Terra Australis. Caught in a cyclone, their ship, the Constance Rose, is destroyed on the coast of the new land.

While the book is fiction, it reflects the history of the times. The religious conflict of protestant England and catholic Spain underpins trading rivalry, an attempt to establish a new colony, piracy, revenge, romance and exploration. Maybe it didn’t happen, but it is an enthralling story.

John Lambert was a teacher of history who was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to education. He began writing historical fiction when he retired. This is his third novel published. His previous novels were 'A Land of Plenty' and 'Beyond All Seas'.

His stories provide the opportunity to show how the past influences the present and how history illustrates the best, and the worst, of human behaviour. While the characters in the stories are mostly fictional, their actions are closely related to the historical context. History is about people; fiction and history combine to make believable and interesting studies of human achievement.

John loves landscape gardening and singing and is an interesting man to interview.

'Lost and Forgotten' by John Lambert  ISBN: 978-1-921731-70-9  RRP $23.95  Fiction – historical adventure.

If you would like to interview the interesting, articulate John Lambert contact Donna on (07) 55 755 141 or marketing@zeus-publications.com. Limited review copies are also available on request.

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