The Flying Dutchman BLEAK FUTURE: 1 (The Flying Dutchman Trilogy)
Language: English
Published by CBS Green Man Publications, 2022
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- Title
- The Flying Dutchman BLEAK FUTURE: 1 (The Flying Dutchman Trilogy)
- Author
- Visser, Nils
- Publisher
- CBS Green Man Publications
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1838242716
- ISBN 13
- 9781838242718
- Illustrator
- Gorringe, Julie
- Item weight
- 567 grams
A tale of courage, betrayal, myth, and madness that is destined to become a legend of the Seven Seas.
1622: Threat of renewed warfare with Spain throws an ominous shadow over the young Dutch republic. Liselotte Haelen, a physician's daughter, has to cope with other shadows as well, trapped in an unhappy household as she is. Her prodigal cousin, Peter Haelen, has built a ship like no other but who will crew her? Folks are superstitious, wary of innovation. Some say Peter has defied the natural order of things. Wagging tongues claim his ship is cursed ere she's even launched. Other aspects are at play. Echoes from the past. Realms below the waves. Hidden forces that confound logic, as deep as the ocean and as wide as the sky.
A story 376 years in the making. Inspired by Willem Bontekoe's Journal (1646), German author Philipp Korber penned Der Fliegende Hollander in 1849. This work inspired Dutch author Piet Visser's De Vliegende Hollander in 1901.
In 2018 Nils Visser started writing The Flying Dutchman BLEAK FUTURE, using elements of his great-grand-uncle Piet Visser's story, but thoroughly modernizing this origins story of the infamous phantom ship for a contemporary audience.
Korber's and Piet Visser's main protagonist, Peter Haelen, plays a major part, but Nils Visser opted to tell the story through the eyes of Peter's cousin Liselotte, who only appears very briefly as 'Lotje' in Piet Visser's work, very much as a damsel in distress. Nils Visser would like to say Liselotte is his invention, but this renewed character is anything but a damsel in distress and would probably shoot the author if he tried to claim ownership.
The paperback is beautifully illustrated by Hastings based artist Julie Gorringe. She accepted the challenge to provide an illustration for each chapter. During the writing process she read each new chapter multiple times before she decided what she would draw, giving her as much creative freedom as possible within the context of illustrating a story.
BLEAK FUTURE is the first of a trilogy, to be followed by MALIGN SHADOWS and INFERNAL FATE.
Piet Visser's publisher, Gebroeders Kluitman (now Uitgeverij Kluitman), has kindly given permission for the writing of this third incarnation of Peter Haelen's doomed career as misunderstood genius and skipper of a ship like no other.
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