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From Library Journal Corn is a freelance travel writer who "takes it as it comes." Here, he paints a picture of a diverse and exotic Indonesia. Traveling by train, bus, boat, and plane during the late 1980s and early 1990s, he experiences the good and the bad of Indonesia. He relates his experiences on Komodo Island, home to the large predatory lizard; among the cannibals of TelukBantini, who dissect their victims with bone knives; in Jakarta, teeming with transvestites and the poor; on the Borneo waterway, whose banks of giant orchids and trees are laced with pythons; and on the Barito River, whose water is the color of blood. Recommended for large travel collections on the basis of Corn's engrossing anecdotes. - Fern Sikkema, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Washington, D.C. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews Travel-writer Corn (The New York Times, etc.) goes to Indonesia to satisfy his lifelong curiosity about the vast, 13,677- island archipelago. Setting out with only a vague itinerary and a determination to take travel as it comes, Corn begins his adventures in Jakarta, a teeming city of eight million, where he is accosted by transvestites; an

Author

Corn, Charles

Publisher

Viking Children's Books

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670823741

Subjects

Travel, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24