Thanks to the author, Vasant Davé I am giving away one eBook copy of Trade Winds to Meluhha.
Book Description:
Trade Winds to Meluhha harks back to Bronze Age Mesopotamia. It involves adventure, strife and love in young Samasin’s life in which swift events chase him to a strange land 3,000 Km. across the sea.
Implicated in a foreigner’s murder, he is saved from a gory sentence by a rare event which is actually recorded on clay tablets excavated in ancient Babylon. He flees to ‘Meluhha’, Indus Valley Civilization, in search of Siwa Saqra whose name was uttered by the alien before he died. There besides Siwa, he also meets two damsels. Anu is a Sumérian who poses as a Meluhhan because she is on a lookout for a couple of faceless men for revenge. Velli, who wins his heart, is still devoted to a person who had jilted her. Interactions with all three lead Samasin on the trail of a diabolic trade that is ruining the lives of youngsters and women back in Mesopotamia.
The book was inspired by archaeological sites in India. The author happened to visit the ancient port at Lothal during one of his extensive tours as an engineer. When he read about explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s 1977 voyage in a reed ship from the Euphrates to the Indus, his technical background spurred him to delve deeper into the 3rd millennium BC ‘globalization’ between Indus Valley and Mesopotamia. That was when Trade winds to Meluhha started taking shape in his mind.
About Vasant Davé:
Vasant Davé was born in Kenya to immigrant parents from India. He was schooled there under teachers coming from all the races living in East Africa during British rule. Graduating from University of Bombay with a degree in Electrical Engineering, he settled down in India’s western state of Gujarat. His work in Industrial Market Research often took him to remote parts of the country where he could visit nearby archaeological sites too. His interest in the ancient past of the sub-continent led him to write a historical novel after retirement in 2008. His technical background helped him to understand and apply historical, geographical, environmental and cultural nuances bearing upon the life during 3rd millennium BC, the period in which Trade Winds to Meluhha is set.
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Thank you, bn100. The ancient cultures of the world do offer very interesting plots, and I have assessed a lost civilization for my narrative. Unfortunately, few people appear to know about Indus Valley Civilization.
This book sounds fascinating.
Thank you, bn100. The ancient cultures of the world do offer very interesting plots, and I have assessed a lost civilization for my narrative. Unfortunately, few people appear to know about Indus Valley Civilization.