Negara Hutan

About the Book

Jason Tan, a Eurasian from the near future of our world falls through a portal to land in South East Asia in a parallel universe. The story covers his confusion and his struggle to get home. The society in which he lands is totally Asian. The great powers are Indian and Chinese empires; the local powers are Greater Khmer, and the Bugis. This new world is peopled by all these groups interacting with each other. During his journey he experiences the surface differences between this world and his own, but gradually realizes the underlying similarities. This new world is in a feudal, pre-industrial age but great things have been achieved. What he eventually understands is that under totally different circumstances, people are still the same and a social situation develops that in many ways closely mimics that existing in our world.

About the Author

David Jackson was born in Staffordshire, England in 1941 and grew up in Shanklin, a small holiday town in the Isle of Wight. He took a B.Sc. in geology at Southampton University and an M.Sc. in geochemistry at Leeds University before joining the international oil industry. He soon became a lifetime expatriate, living and working in the USA, the Arabian Gulf and Southeast Asia, before retiring to Malaysia. In retirement Mr. Jackson has turned to writing short stories for young children and this his first novel; he is married and lives in Penang.