This collection of writings about the Indonesian island of Bali is a presentation of the various facets of travel and the myriad persepctives on the island. The anthology covers four hundred years of journeys, including reports of the 1957 Dutch `first fleet’, Francois Valentijn’s baroqueaccount of slavery and sodomy, the effusive outpourings of 1920s travelllers to `paradise’, and the reflections of Balinese writers on what was happening to their island in the 1970s and 1980s. Extracts are grouped broadly by theme – getting to Bali, encounters on the island, political and socialevents, the wonders of nature, places, culture and the arts, and religion – which together form an entertaining and edifying collection which can be read for its prose, for its amusing stories, or as a historical `reader’.
Weight | 0.5 kg |
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ISBN | 9789676530813 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication Year | 1994 |
Pages | 278 |
Format | Paperback |