Jason Schoonover

The Manila Galleon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Manila Galleon was the annual treasure ship sailing between Acapulco and Manila for 250 years. The Manila Galleon launches a new sub-genre that of the anthropological/archaeological-adventure-thriller. It's two interlocking adventures one in 1704, the other today. Protagonists in each one a young privateer from the frontier town of New York, the other an adventurer from modern Manhattantry to claim the galleon. Each tries to understand the purpose of a mysterious statue aboard. In the past, it is possessed by a Jesuit with world-shaking ambitions. The stakes are equally high on the modern side a fortune in treasure. If al-Queda linked Asian terrorists seize it, the Religious World War we're engaged in will explode to unimaginable levels. Past and present collide in a startling multi-layered climax, restoring a historic Legend to his rightful place in history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Schoonover
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411675889
• Artikelnr.: 70635401

Autorenporträt

Jason Schoonoverwriter, adventurer, expedition leader, ethnologist, archaeologist, paleontologist, canoeist, naturalist, photographer and Fellow Emeritus, Stefansson Medalist, Citation of Merit awardee, and on the Honor Roll of The Explorers Club, Fellow Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medalwas brought up on farms, villages and towns in Saskatchewan, Canada, and cities like Saskatoon and Vancouver. This explains why he feels equally at home canoeing in the remote north of his homeland, one of his passions, and living in mega-cities like Bangkok.

Following university (Simon Fraser, English and History, 1970, Vancouver), he launched a multi-media career as a disk jockey, and expanded into writing, directing and producing in radio, TV, stage, newspapers and magazines, including stints as a columnist. His largest stage production was writing, directing and producing Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's 80th birthday party gala in 1975, an extravaganza involving over 300 performers and personnel. He founded Schoonover Properties and invested everything in Saskatoon real estate. Since 1977, he's been gainfully unemployed and began traveling in earnest.

On his first solo around the world, stringing travel as a photo-journalist to Canadian and U.S. dailies, he discovered a new and fascinating career in Asiaanthropological collecting for museums internationally. He moved to Bangkok in 1982. This exciting lifestyle led to the publication in 1988 of his first adventure novel, The Bangkok Collection, which became the Bantam international paperback bestseller Thai Gold the following year. All his books, fiction and non-fiction, are in the adventure field.

He's been Team Leader on over 40 expeditions, including several 18-member dinosaur bone hunting forays in Alberta with renowned paleontologist Phil Currie as his Field Leaderwhich resulted in a major find; explored Asian jungles and the Himalaya piecing together ethnographic collections for museums; excavated caves in Thailand for Paleolithic finds resulting in the building of a museum; fixed the opening episode for Les Survivorman Stroud's Beyond Survival in Sri Lanka; led numerous canoe expeditions with Capt. Norm Baker, Thor Heyerdahl's First Mate on the Ra voyages across the Atlantic, as his own First Mate; and explored Thailand's abandoned WW-II River Kwai Death Railway with Sir Rodney Beattie. He's also been charged by a bull elephant...