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Java Adventure Guide
The ultimate adventure guide This is the most comprehensive guide to Java ever produced. Hundreds of pages of travel tips and dozens of lively articles on history, nature, and the arts, take you right under the surface of Javanese life, with visits to lots of unique places. Under the volcano Java’s 121 active volcanoes rumble and roar above one of the world’s most dramatic tropical landscapes. Whether you come here to trek the volcanoes or to visit the island’s impressive ancient monuments, Java provides the adventure of a lifetime. The nitty gritty, from A to Z Detailed maps of all areas of interest are included along with personal recommendations from our expert authors on how to get around, where to stay and eat, and how to get the best value for your money.
Chinese Indonesians
Honours and reflects on the life and work of the Australian Indonesianist, Charles A. Coppel. His interests - reflected in this volume - are broad, ranging from history, politics, legal issues, and violence against the Chinese through culture and religion. Both authors are at the University of Melbourne.
Singapore
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Early Mapping of the Pacific
Contains primary source material.
Wearing Wealth and Styling Identity
Discover the cultural iconography of these extraordinary textiles and how tapis garments exemplify the social station and clan identity of the women of South Sumatra
Tropical Asian Style
Breezy verandahs, outdoor pavilions, refreshing pools and elegantly decorated bedrooms that open onto lush tropical gardens. Silks, batiks, terracotta tiles and lacquerwares from Thailand and Indonesia, stone garden sculptures from Bali and antique furniture from Java. Inspirational additions to interior decor, these superb objets dart also symbolize important features of the emerging tropical design style: an emphasis on local materials, indigenous crafts, and vernacular architectural forms, combined with a resolution of ecological demands in the actual layout of the house. Tropical Asian Style is the first book to showcase these tropical dream houses, illustrating in over 400 glorious photographs the seventy featured houses from Bali to Thailand, Singapore to India.
