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Where On Earth Can You Take Tea With A Corpse, Go Hunting For Whales, Bunk Down In A Sulphurous Volcano And Incur The Wrath Of A Crocodile Whisperer? For Encounters With The Unexpected, Look To Indonesia. In 1945, Indonesia's Declaration Of Independence Promised: 'the Details Of The Transfer Of Power Etc. Will Be Worked Out As Soon As Possible.' Still Working On The 'etc.' Seven Decades Later, The World's Fourth Most Populous Nation Is Now Enthusiastically Democratic And Riotously Diverse. Over 65 Million Indonesians Use Facebook, Though 80 Million Live Without Electricity. It Is One Of The Richest And Most Enchanting Countries On Earth, But Is Riddled, Too, With Ineptitude And Corruption. Elizabeth Pisani, Who First Worked In Indonesia 25 Years Ago As A Foreign Correspondent And Came Back A Decade Later As A Medical Researcher, Set Out In 2011 To Rediscover Its Enduring Attraction, And To Find The Links Which Bind Together This Impossibly Disparate Nation. She Travelled For Over A Year, Covering 13,000 Miles By Land And Sea, Dropping In On Local Potentates And Staying With Farmers And Fishermen, And Nomads And Nurses, Often On Islands Too Small To Appear On A Map. In Indonesia Etc

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Author

Pisani, Elizabeth, author

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847086549

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Travel, History

Rating

4.18 / 5 (555 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14