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Indonesia is a Happening

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Java, Bali, Sumatra! exotic sounds that seduce the traveler like a siren's song. There's no place on earth quite like Indonesia. In this fast, excit-ing, often hilarious book, author Christopher Lucas discovers not a country, but a 24-hour-a-day happening a fistful of mercury, a trip to the fifth dimension, a beguiling enigma." And Lucas gets involved up to his eyeballs. Once Holland's fabled "Spice Isles," today Indonesia boasts the world's fifth-biggest popu-lation-and headaches to match. It has 13,667 islands, 117 million people, prodigious wealth, abysmal poverty, and a sense of kismet that both infuriates and endears. Run by generals and uncrowned sultans, swayed by sorcery and superstition, modern Indonesia is bizarre, mysterious, surreal. It's also entrancingly live and beautiful, as shown in Victor Englebert's spectacular color photographs. But this is no conventional travel book. It's neither stuffy Baedeker nor glossy travelogue. It's a gripping, highly personal account that tells it like it is warts and all. Both lyrical and la-conic, both impatient and sympathetic, it focuses on people rather than places. There hasn't been such a way-out trip since Stanley and Livingstone. It's far, far off the beaten track of world tourism, and the adventurous traveler will want to pack his bags right away, if only to retrace Lucas's wayward trail across this madcap, ever fascinating land.

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Ketersediaan

B017539

915.98043 Luc i

Tersedia

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

915.98043 Luc i

Penerbit

: John Weatherhill, Inc.., 1970

Deskripsi Fisik

vi,; 134 hlm.; 21,5 cm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0802724418

Klasifikasi

915.98043

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Tipe Media

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Subjek

Travel
Indonesia Culture

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