From the Gates of Aksum

Gerard A. Besson

ISBN 10: 9768054972 / ISBN 13: 9789768054975

Published by Paria Publishing, Trinidad, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From the Gates of Aksum
• Publisher: Paria Publishing, Trinidad
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9768054972
• ISBN 13: 9789768054975
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Paperback Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

From the Gates of Aksum weaves Freemasonry and European religious and political intrigue into the tapestry of Caribbean and South American political history. The book begins in late 18th century Port-d'Espagne, Trinidad, and is told by several narrators. The story spans centuries, from a time when a company of adventurers recovers a mysterious object of an antediluvian science from the secluded kingdom of Aksum in the Ethiopian highlands, on to the first anguished years of the 19th century. In the riotous wake of the American, French and Haitian Revolutions, the collapse of the Spanish empire in the New World and the rise of the British empire, François de Gurvand, a French colonist, must transport the object from his ancestral home in France to a specific geographical position - the island of Trinidad. A Vatican secret society, the Holy Hermandad, the Emperor Napoleon, various factions of Freemasonry, and another ancient secret society all vie for possession of the object. From the Gates of Aksum speaks of the role that the early Trinidadians played in that epoch-changing period when the dawning of the Age of Enlightenment altered the course of the history of the world. While the plot and most of the characters are fictitious, the reader familiar with West Indian, South American and European history will find old acquaintances who come to life in this book - such as Francisco de Miranda, Simón Bolívar, and a heroic band of Trinidadians remembered as the Immortal 45.