Adventures and Encounters, Europeans in Southeast Asia  •  J.M. Gullick ANTHOLOGY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES This anthology offers a diverse selection of European accounts of Southeast Asia. The writers range from 16th century explorers and mariners to 19th century naturalists and modern literary travelers. Complemented by engravings and archival photographs. (INS20, $60.00)
Alfred Russel Wallace, A Life  •  Peter Raby BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2002 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES A re-evaluation of the man and his accomplishments as a traveler, scientist and intellectual. By the author of "Bright Paradise, Victorian Scientific Travelers," Raby is an appreciative, lively biographer who captures the tremendous spirit and energy of Wallace. Co-presenter with Charles Darwin of the original paradigm-shattering paper on natural selection, Wallace is here given his due as a great (if sometimes misguided) naturalist and collector. (MSA15, $22.95)
Among Orangutans, Red Apes and the Rise of Human Culture  •  Carel van Schaik  •  Perry van Dujinhoven NATURAL HISTORY •  2004 •  HARD COVER  • 320 PAGES In this compelling illustrated book Carel van Schaik explores the habits and ecology of the Orangutan in Borneo and Sumatra. Van Schaik is a professor at Duke University with an interest in the socioecology of orangutans and the evolution of culture. The text is considerably enhanced by the color photographs by nature photographer Perry van Duijnhoven. (NAT63, $29.95)
Among the Believers, An Islamic Journey  •  V.S. Naipaul CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1982 •  PAPER  • 430 PAGES A provocative, insightful account of Naipaul's travels in the 1979 through the non-Arab Islamic nations of Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia. Naipaul interweaves description and incident with interviews and thoughts on the role of religion. (ISL17, $16.00)
Arts of Southeast Asia  •  Fiona Kerlogue ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES A handsome guide to the art, architecture, textiles and crafts of Southeast Asia, featuring 183 illustrations, 102 in color. Organized thematically, this concise book includes chapters on Hindu, Buddhist and indigenous art. A volume in the World of Art series. (SEA45, $16.95)
Bali Chronicles, A Lively Account of the Island's History from Early Times to the 1970s  •  Willard A. Hanna  •  Adrian Vickers HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES A social and political history of Bali, focusing on religious conficts and the island's relationship to the West. (BAL25, $29.95)
Bali Pocket Guide  •  Berlitz Pocket Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2001 •  PAPER  • 192 PAGES (BAL12, $8.95)
Bali, Java, in My Dreams  •  Christine Jordis TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 230 PAGES A French novelist's dreamy, atmospheric account of travels in Indonesia, evoking the ancient monuments and modern peoples. (INS96, $20.00)
The Balinese  •  John Stephen Lansing CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1995 •  PAPER  • 148 PAGES An excellent, brief survey of the geography, prehistory and modern culture and people of Bali. Lansing, one of the foremost authorities on Balinese society, is especially interested in Bali's remarkable water temples and irrigation systems. (INS69, $37.95)
Contemporary Tie and Dye Textiles of Indonesia  •  Kim Jane Saunders CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1997 •  HARD COVER  • 160 PAGES Saunders provides a great introduction to the textiles of each of the main island groups, giving many examples of the diverse styles as well as guidance on identification and classification in this comprehensive survey of hand-woven textiles in Indonesia. With 32 color and 50 black-and-white photographs. (INS101, $55.00)
Culture Smart! Indonesia  •  Graham Saunders GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 168 PAGES A concise and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (INS104, $9.95)
East of Bali: From Lombok to Timor, Periplus Adventure Guides  •  Kal Muller  •  David Pickell GUIDEBOOK •  2001 •  PAPER  • 332 PAGES A comprehensive introduction to the region, featuring excellent maps, color photogaphs and a survey of the art, culture and nature for the traveler (INS27, $19.95)
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia  •  Elizabeth Gilbert LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES Gilbert chronicles in luminous prose a year-long odyssey not just to escape from an ugly divorce but also to discover the world and herself. The book, like her quest, is in three parts: Rome (eat), Mumbai (pray) and Bali (where she falls in love). (TVL107, $15.00)
Encyclopedia of Volcanoes  •  Haraldur Sigurdsson REFERENCE •  2000 •  HARD COVER  • 1456 PAGES An authoritative, enormous reference on volcanoes and volcanology. 82 essays written by experts in the field are organized thematically into nine chapters. Best suited for scientists or those who already know something about the subject. Illustrated throughout with photographs, tables and diagrams. Includes a useful glossary, bibliography and appendices. (GEO23, $119.00)
Eyewitness Guide Bali and Lombok  •  Jean Couteau GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES A highly visual guide to the history, culture, arts and attractions of Bali with hundreds of photographs, excellent maps and select hotel and restaurant listings. (BAL20, $20.00)
First Under Heaven, The Art of Asia  •  Hali Publications ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1997 •  HARD COVER  • 196 PAGES The fourth Hali Annual, a showcase of textiles and decorative arts throughout Asia including chapters on Islamic calligraphy, Mughal bronze, Indonesian textiles and Indian temple architecture. (ASA19, $78.00)
Footprint Diving the World, A Guide to the World's Coral Seas  •  Beth Tierney  •  Shaun Tierney GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 350 PAGES An inviting, beautifully illustrated guide to 220 dive sites in 19 countries with chapters on Australia and the Pacific, Mexico and Honduras, Egypt, East Africa and the Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Micronesia. Featuring the diving couple's favorite destinations, the book includes a planning guide, practical tips, and listing of dive centers, hotels, restaurants and live-aboards. (OCE102, $29.95)
Fortune of War  •  Patrick O'Brian LITERATURE •  1991 •  PAPER  • 329 PAGES The sixth of the Aubrey-Maturin series, this book opens in the Dutch East Indies although Aubrey and Maturin soon find themselves fighting the Americans in the War of 1812 -- and Maturin's love life becomes interesting again, as Diana Villiers, his long lost love, shows up in Boston. (INS95, $14.95)
A Fortune-Teller Told Me, Earthbound Travels in the Far East  •  Tizanio Terzani TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 371 PAGES Grounded for a year, the peripatetic journalist (Italian-born, writing in German, and based in India) sets off by any other means to complete his rounds through Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Mongolia, China, Japan and other far-flung destinations. The result is this warm, anecdotal account of the character of the region. It's got to be the book most recommended to us on contemporary Asia. (SEA35, $14.95)
A History of Modern Indonesia Since c. 1200  •  M. C. Ricklefs HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 512 PAGES A comprehensive, even-handed and readable political history of the region intended for an academic audience. Updated and expanded for this third edition with four new chapters, turn to it if you have a serious interest in understanding the complex history of this often volatile region. (INS18, $31.95)
Indonesian Politics under Suharto, Order, Development and Pressure for Change  •  Michael Vatikiotis HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 234 PAGES An excellent survey of Indonesia from the time President Suharto came to power in 1965 until 1994 -- the beginning of the end. The book provides a good review of his style of leadership, and of the economic developments. (INS68, $25.99)
Insight Guide Bali & Lombak  •  Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 324 PAGES Insight Regional Guide Bali includes a section on villages and towns, such as Gilimanuk, Kuta and Nusa Dua, as well as a section on sights, including Goa Gajah, Gunung Kawi, Lovina Beach and Monkey Forest. A section on temples covers Pura Luhur Batukau, Pura Taman Ayun and Pura Ulun Danu Bratan, and a section on museums details the Agung Rai Museum of Art, the Bali Museum and the Neka Museum. This guide also includes information on accommodation, transportation, festivals, sports, shopping, language, and where to eat, as well as 11 area maps. (BAL06, $18.95)
Insight Guide Southeast Asia  •  Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2003 •  PAPER  • 302 PAGES • COMING IN A profusely illustrated overview of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and the Phillippines, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on history, politics and culture, as well as hundreds of photos and maps and some limited practical information. (SEA51, $22.95)
Into the Heart of Borneo  •  Redmond O'Hanlon EXPLORATION •  1987 •  PAPER  • 190 PAGES This wonderful writer combines the talents of Alfred Wallace and the Monty Python Troupe. Irreverent and with a highly developed sense of the absurd, O'Hanlon also has a fine eye for the details of natural history; he even gives Latin names and includes an extensive bibliography on the region. This was his first travel book, the entertaining and informative story of a journey into the mountains of Sarawak with poet and friend James Fenton. (BRN03, $12.95)
Island Life  •  Alfred Russel Wallace NATURAL HISTORY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 544 PAGES A contemporary of Charles Darwin (and co-author of the paper on the theory of evolution through natural selection at the Linnean Society on in July 1, 1858), Wallace like Darwin was struck by the variation of species on islands around the world. "Island Life" is Wallace's popular account of the natural history of island groups first published in 1881. He includes among the islands considered the Azores, Galapagos Islands, Borneo, Java, Madagascar and New Zealand. (NAT27, $18.00)
Island of Java  •  John Jospeh Stockdale HISTORY •  1995 •  PAPER  • 428 PAGES A facsimile reprint of the original 1811 British account, the first popular work in English on Java. It's a comprehensive portrait of the island, fascinating in its detail about the land and culture. It also, inadvertently, says a great deal about the British attitude toward these newly conquered peoples. (INS71, $19.95)
It's Not an All Night Fair  •  Pramoedya Ananta Toer  •  Mark Hanusz LITERATURE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 112 PAGES In this moving novella by the celebrated author of This Earth of Mankind (Item INS04), a son returns home to Java to be with his dying father. Originally published in Indonesia in 1951 under the title Bukan Pasar Malam, it's steeped in the milieu of its time. (INS103, $12.00)
Java Nusa Tenggara Map  •  Nelles MAP A colorful double-sided shaded relief map of Java and Nusa Tenggara. (INS35, $7.95)
Java/Nusa Tenggara Map  •  Nelles MAP A traveler's map at a scale of 1:1.5 million of Java and the Lesser Sunda from Bali, Lombok and Sumba to Flores. (INS92, $8.95)
Komodo, the Living Dragon  •  Richard Lutz NATURAL HISTORY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 180 PAGES A lively introduction to the Komodo dragon, with chapters on natural history, the remote islands where it is found, discovery, ecology and conservation, and recent efforts to breed the Komodo in captivity. (INS33, $16.95)
Krakatau, The Destruction and Reassembly of an Island Ecosystem  •  Ian Thornton NATURAL HISTORY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES A vivid natural history of Krakatoa, Thornton follows the colonization of the island by plants and animals after the cataclysmic eruption on August 27, 1883. It's a scholarly, fascinating report on the history, geology and ecology of the island, including a vivid account of the volcanic eruption pieced together from ship's logs and contemporary reports. (INS76, $27.00)
Krakatoa, The Day the World Exploded: August 27,1883  •  Simon Winchester NATURAL HISTORY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES With this marvelous book, his 16th, Winchester returns to his original calling of roots in geology, masterfully combining his own observations of Krakatoa with a vivid retelling of the eruption itself, and a crystal-clear overview of plate tectonics and volcanology. The ecological concept of succession has rarely had such an excellent spokesman. (INS93, $13.95)
Lombok & Sumbawa Map  •  Periplus Maps MAP A detailed map of the two islands east of Bali, extending east to Komodo. Lombok is featured at a scale of 1:200,000; Sumbawa at 1:650,000. (INS66, $8.95)
Lonely Planet Bali & Lombok  •  Paul Greenway  •  James Lyon  •  Tony Wheeler GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 396 PAGES Now in its 8th edition, this practical guidebook to the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok features 60 maps, sections on food, history, religion and culture, as well as information on accommodations and outings. (BAL19, $21.99)
Lonely Planet East Timor  •  Tony Wheeler GUIDEBOOK •  2004 •  PAPER A comprehensive guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style combining a good overview of the natural history and culture of East Timor with helpful travel information. (INS105, $21.99)
Lonely Planet Indonesian Phrasebook  •  Paul Woods LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •  2000 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES A handy phrasebook for Indonesian basics. This guide focuses on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (INS64, $7.99)
A Marine Rapid Assessment of the Raja Ampat Islands, Papua Province, Indonesia  •  Sheila McKenna  •  Gerald Allen NATURAL HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 193 PAGES A brief report of a 2001 survey of the health and remarkable biodiversity of the coral reefs and reef fishes of the Raja Ampat Islands, a sparsely populated and mountainous group of islands off the western coast of West Papua (Irian Jaya), published by Conservation International. (INS100, $19.95)
Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company  •  Multatuli  •  Roy Edwards LITERATURE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 337 PAGES Written under a pseudonym, this book is the powerful story of corruption in colonial Java, a classic first published in 1860 -- and instrumental in bringing about change in the region. Frankly autobiographical, it was written by a former civil servant in Java, none to pleased at his treatment. It's a biting satire, funny and heart-wrenching, with real insight into colonial Indonesia. Read it alongside the novels of Pramoedya Toer, the modern Indonesian writer. (INS75, $16.00)
The Naked Tourist, In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall  •  Lawrence Osborne TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES • NEW "It came upon me suddenly," Osborne reports, "like a mental disorder unknown to psychiatry: the desire to stop everything in normal life, to uproot, leave." And so he does, taking off on a six-month journey from Dubai to India, Bangkok, Bali and Papua New Guinea on the "Asian Highway." Osborne is not just interested in travel, but also in the reasons why we travel, layering his own entertaining adventures with ruminations on Shangri-La, The Grand Tour, the exotic and primitive. (SEA50, $14.00)
Periplus Guide Bali, The Island of the Gods  •  Periplus Adventure Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 342 PAGES A comprehensive, illustrated introduction to Bali for the traveler, compiled by noted experts. Hundreds of color photographs and detailed maps augment background articles on culture, nature and the arts. With some practical travel information. (INS50, $24.95)
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Borneo  •  Geoffrey Davidson FIELD GUIDE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES A pocket field guide illustrating 250 species of the more common or spectacular species of birds found on Birds of Borneo, Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan. Arranged systematically, the book features full-color photographs, identification and habitat notes, and range maps. One of a series. (BRN07, $15.95)
Prince Henry "the Navigator," A Life  •  Peter E. Russell BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2001 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES A complicated, rewarding portrait, and the first biography of the Portuguese prince in 100 years. In this revisionist history Russell depicts a Prince Henry who is not, as legend would have it, a visionary modernist, but rather a man of the Renaissance, as subject to prejudice, superstition and ego as any prince of his era. (PGL25, $21.00)
Reflections of Eden, My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo  •  Biruté Galdikas NATURAL HISTORY •  1995 •  PAPER  • 408 PAGES Along with Fossey and Goodall, Galdikas got her start in primate research under the direction of Leakey. Her focus is the red ape of Borneo and Sumatra. In this personal account, Galdikas describes the behavior and life of the orangutan -- as well as her life in the field. (INS14, $19.99)
Southeast Asia, A Concise History  •  Mary Somers Heidhues HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 192 PAGES A lively, illustrated history of Southeast Asia, covering the politics, economics, society and culture of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines. With 131 black-and-white illustrations and 11 maps. (SEA26, $19.95)
Spice, The History of a Temptation  •  Jack Turner FOOD •  2005 •  PAPER A cultural history of pepper, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, cloves and ginger. Turner evokes the romance, lust and mystery of these exotic imports from the east. He cleverly organizes the book, not by by geography, chornology or space, but by the impact of these wonderfully valuabel and valued good on the psyche. Great fun and elightening. (GEN334, $14.95)
Sulawesi Map  •  Nelles MAP A colorful double-sided shaded relief map of Sulawesi at a scale of 1:1,500,000. (INS39, $10.95)
Swimming with Jonah  •  Audrey Schulman LITERATURE •  2000 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES (INS87, $12.95)
The Thirteen Gun Salute  •  Patrick O'Brian LITERATURE •  1993 •  PAPER  • 319 PAGES The 13th in the Aubrey/Maturin series. This one finds Aubrey reinstated in the Royal Navy, and off to the East Indies, with Maturin, of course, in tow. The mission: to head off the French and make a deal with the Sultan of Borneo. (INS37, $14.95)
West Papua and Indonesia Since Suharto: Independence, Autonomy or Chaos?  •  Peter King HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 231 PAGES A scholarly political and economic survey of the independence movement in West Papua (Irian Jaya) since the fall of General Suharto in 1998. (INS99, $24.95)
Where the Spirits Dwell  •  Tobias Schneebaum TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1988 •  PAPER  • 209 PAGES A lyrical account of four years among the headhunters of Asmat, a classic, highly personal portrait of a people. Schneebaum, a Brooklyn-born painter, threw himself into the culture -- and this beautiful, haunting book was the result. (INS23, $12.95)
A Woman's Asia  •  Marybeth Bond ANTHOLOGY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 310 PAGES These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller. Featuring selections from Jan Morris, Pamela Logan and Alison Wright. (ASA49, $17.95)