Review: A wonderful work of historical fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 7, 2013
"Alfred Wellers" is a well researched historical novel that takes the reader straight into the midst of the bubbling-with-life-and-business Amsterdam of the early 17th century, where the international trade of these times centered almost solely. The Half Moon, a newly build ship, is about to leave in order to find the passage through the Northern Sea, with its captain being an English man and suspected by the Dutch.The ship might have never made it, neither through the Northern Sea, nor to its destiny to 'discover' the Hudson River, but for a young boy of 12, Alfred Wellers, the son of the influential Amsterdam man, engineer and merchant. A good boy as he was, Alfred just couldn't help it, fascinated by the ship and its destination. His following decision was to change his life and much more than this.This novel will take the reader on a wonderful adventure, following the real historical happenings that proved that the history can make its own breathtaking stories, with no need to embellish or add; just to make a terrific research and to put it skillfully on the paper. Alfred Wellers proved that the honorable brave men were always around, in the most questionable times of history and beyond it.I recommend this read highly, to the lovers of history, historical fiction and to anyone else!