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Empire of the East

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Empire of the East

By Norman Lewis

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About the book

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 r...Show more

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9781780601021

Publisher

Eland Publishing Ltd

Published year

2014

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1

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Empire of the East

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Paperback

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