In Other Words: 40 Years of Writing on Indonesia
By Goenawan Mohamad, Jennifer Lindsay
Why this book?
The best books of counter history to enrich your world view
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Browse the best books on Indonesia as recommended by authors, experts, and creators. Along with notes on why they recommend those books.
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By Goenawan Mohamad, Jennifer Lindsay
The best books of counter history to enrich your world view
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By Lawrence Wright
The best novels I read during the pandemic
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By Will Buckingham
Since the 1980s, anthropologists have been confronting the fraught ethics of representing other people, other places, other cultures much more directly than their counterparts in journalism or travel writing. Will Buckingham didn’t stick with anthropology, and this book about his fieldwork with woodcarvers in eastern Indonesia – written two decades after the events it describes – goes some way to explaining why. It’s wry, funny and thought-provoking. The title refers to the theft committed by every travelling writer.
The best books that capture the complexities of writing about the real world
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By Maria Dermout
This true story occurred over twenty years starting in 1920. A haunted garden on a small island of the Indonesian Maluku archipelago. Here, Felicia has spent her early childhood with her grandmother, the last of an old line of Dutch spice growers. Felicia returns from Europe, after a ruinous marriage, with her baby son Willem. The plantation, overgrown and abandoned, reaches down to the blue-green waters. Felicia and her grandmother settle down again together to the ebb and flow of life surrounded by clove and nutmeg trees, and mystery. But slowly strange events happen in that Garden of Eden and…
The best non-fiction books that will immerse you in far-flung places and times
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By Elizabeth Gilbert
What is more truly vagabond than packing up your life and traveling abroad for a year? Elizabeth dives deep into herself by going solo and immersing herself in three cultures. Hers is the perfect illustration of rejecting societal norms and her own internal demons to find the abundant life she wants.
The best books for hikertrash and other vagabonds
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By Lonely Planet Food
Capturing the excitement of our drinking age, Lonely Planet’s Global Distillery Tour stops in over 30 countries and provides a tantalizing glimpse at what is happening around the world. With photographs of both product and place, the book offers not just information on distilleries but itineraries to start planning those visits. Vast in scope while feeling manageable, the book makes a great introduction to the spirits world -- plus, has readers itching to experience it all for themselves.
The best cocktail books for armchair travelers
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