Dr. Erica Bell

Erica Bell was born on the islands of New Guinea and grew up in the Bismarck Archipelago's New Britain and the Louisiade Archipelago's Misima. Her teenage years were filled with outback camping adventures in Australia's Northern Territory, and as an adult she lived in Queensland before migrating to America, where she wrote her first book, Hilda and the Ship's Doctor , a historical fiction novel. Bell now lives in Tasmania, where she works as an academic. Inspired by her own experiences...See more

Erica Bell was born on the islands of New Guinea and grew up in the Bismarck Archipelago's New Britain and the Louisiade Archipelago's Misima. Her teenage years were filled with outback camping adventures in Australia's Northern Territory, and as an adult she lived in Queensland before migrating to America, where she wrote her first book, Hilda and the Ship's Doctor , a historical fiction novel. Bell now lives in Tasmania, where she works as an academic. Inspired by her own experiences rambling over the Northern Territory terrain as a teenager, as well as by the history of the trepang fishermen from South Sulawesi who, hundreds of years ago, mastered extraordinary feats of navigation in the area, Bell has written her second historical novel, Enzam and the Just Prince . It is a thrilling nineteenth-century adventure following the unlikely pairing of a Dutch woman and a Makassar shipmaster in search of an ancient recipe. See less