{"product_id":"9781780601021","title":"Empire of the East : Travels in Indonesia","description":"\u003cp\u003eNorman Lewis was eighty-three years old when in 1991 he embarked on a series of three arduous journeys into the most contentious corners of Indonesia: into the extreme western edge of Sumatra, into East Timor and Irian Jaya. He never drops his guard, reporting only on what he can observe, and using his well-honed tools of irony, humour and restraint to assess the power of the ruling Javanese generals who for better or worse took over the 300-year old dominion of the exploitative Dutch colonial regime. An Empire of the East is the magnificent swan-song of Britain's greatest travel writer: unearthing the decimation of the tropical rain forests in Sumatra, the all but forgotten Balinese massacre of the communists in 1965, the shell-shocked destruction of East Timor, the stone-age hunter-gathering culture of the Yali tribe (in western Papua New Guinea) and perhaps most chilling of all, his visit to the Freeport Copper mine in the sky - which is like a foretaste of the film Avatar - but this time the bad guys, complete with a well-oiled publicity department, triumph.\n\u003cbr\u003eHe left us with a brilliant book, that reveals his passion for justice and his delight in every form of human society and still challenges our complacency and indifference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eland Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48780430573803,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":43.93,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781780601021-1.jpg?v=1781702240","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781780601021","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}