AN EMPIRE OF THE EAST Norman Lewis - Travels in Indonesia

AN EMPIRE OF THE EAST by Norman Lewis is a hard-to-find travel classic. Lewis travels from the northern tip of Sumatra all the way down to East Timor and the highlands of Irian Jaya.

THIS IS A USED TRAVEL BOOK IN GOOD, AGING CONDITION WITH FAULTS: lightly read; shows mild reading wear to extremeties; pages are clean and browning with age; some light coffee drop marks on cover and top edge of text block; excellent binding with no spine creases. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

PUBLISHER'S BLURB: 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.

Book Details

Code: SKU1815

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 289

Published: 1995 by Picador, UK

ISBN: 0330334077

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