Code: 02657995

Empire of the East

Name: Empire of the East
Brand: Eland Publishing Ltd
SKU: 02657995
Price: 16.26 EUR
Availability: BackOrder

by Norman Lewis

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd, 2014
More about this

16.26 €

RRP: 18.80 €

You save 2.54 €

Availability:

50/50

We think title might be available. Upon your order we will do our best to get it within 6 weeks.
We search the world

Availability alert

Add to wishlist

G. W. F. Hegel
51.24 €
Buy
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
8.38 € -36 %
Buy
Forrest Gump
10.12 € -16 %
Buy
Wuthering Heights
4.59 € -24 %
Buy
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
16.26 € -13 %
Buy
Sapiens
12.16 €
Buy
Pedagogicheskoe rukovodstvo tvorcheskim razvitiem mladshih shkol'nikov ch.2
42.86 €
Buy

Give this book as a present today

Order book and choose Gift Order.
We will send you book gift voucher at once. You can give it out to anyone.
Book will be send to donee, nothing more to care about.

Book gift voucher sample Read more

Availability alert

We will watch availability for you

Enter your e-mail address and once book will be available,
we will send you a message. It's that simple.

You get 40 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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.