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An Empire of the East: Travels in Indonesia (Paperback)

by Norman Lewis (Author)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (13 Jan 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0330334077
ISBN-13: 978-0330334075
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 675,883 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Some of the adventures in Norman Lewis's book about Indonesia are unpremeditated. He goes to Aceh, North Sumatra, in the hope of describing its reserve of the richest fauna and flora in the world but runs into a separatist insurrection and he is deserted by his guide. East Timor is notoriously hard to enter, but Lewis travels there with his daughter, in a lull in the fighting, stays in a Catholic orphanage, and returns with an account of the life of the survivors. In Irian Jays he learns of the existence of Yali tribal communities living in stone-age culture little altered in 10,000 years. Lewis's Yali hosts, who are presumed to have tasted human flesh, are courteous and kindly. This book, above all, is an account of a race against time to see, enjoy and describe beautiful places while they are still there.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book, 14 Dec 2000

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Norman Lewis, like Graham Greene, has an unerring instinct for the trouble spots of the world. He wrote about Cambodia before the Indo-Chinese war, Vietnam before the Vietnamese war, and was one of the first to disclose the genocide being perpetrated by the actions of logging companies and north American missionaries on the Amazonian Indians. In this beautifully written, humane, witty and perceptive book he turns his gimlet eye on Indonesia, particularly the Indonesian government's imperial ambitions and appalling repression in East Timor and Irian Jaya. Lewis makes difficult and dangerous journeys through both areas, but his focus is never on himself. He concentrates always on the lives of the local people, their dangers, their sufferings and also the fragile, precious texture of everyday life - wars go on but people still repair their motorbikes, fly kites, marry, fish and go to school.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A delight, 26 Feb 1999

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As we have come to expect from such a distinguished and erudite man as Norman Lewis this book is a delight. Lewis seeks out the unusual but is so quick to pick up on subtleties, nuances, feelings of people and places. His musings and recordings are so insightful. Mr Lewis seems to glide through life, stops to admire the good and the bad, the saints and the sinners, and then moves effortlessly onwards. This book is a heart-stirring account of lifestyles that are fast being eradicated at the governments insistance and it should be read by anyoneinterested in the cultures of the East.

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