Description
| Product ID: | 9781780601021 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Empire of the East |
| Subtitle: | Travels in Indonesia |
| Authors: | Author: Norman Lewis |
| Page Count: | 280 |
| Subjects: | Travel writing, Travel writing, Indonesia |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when in 1991 he embarked on a series of three arduous journeys into the most contentious corners of Indonesia: into the extreme western edge of Sumatra, into East Timor and Irian Jaya. He never drops his guard, reporting only on what he can observe, and using his well-honed tools of irony, humour and restraint to assess the power of the ruling Javanese generals who for better or worse took over the 300-year old dominion of the exploitative Dutch colonial regime. An Empire of the East is the magnificent swan-song of Britain's greatest travel writer: unearthing the decimation of the tropical rain forests in Sumatra, the all but forgotten Balinese massacre of the communists in 1965, the shell-shocked destruction of East Timor, the stone-age hunter-gathering culture of the Yali tribe (in western Papua New Guinea) and perhaps most chilling of all, his visit to the Freeport Copper mine in the sky - which is like a foretaste of the film Avatar - but this time the bad guys, complete with a well-oiled publicity department, triumph. He left us with a brilliant book, that reveals his passion for justice and his delight in every form of human society and still challenges our complacency and indifference. |
| Imprint Name: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-04-04 |
