An artist in Java and other islands of Indonesia
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Bibliographic Information
An artist in Java and other islands of Indonesia
（Oxford paperbacks）
New York : Oxford University Press, 1989
- Other Title
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Een Kunstreis in de Tropen
An artist in the tropics
Available at 5 libraries
Note
Originally published in English as "An artist in the tropics", London : Sampson Low, Marston, 1928
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Full of insights into everyday life and Dutch colonial society in the 1920s, this book takes the reader on a tour of the islands of Java, Madura, Bali, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, and Sumatra, then collectively known as the Dutch East Indies.
Table of Contents
- Comforters and guides
- Travelling companions
- Port Said
- A cyclone
- Penang
- Travelling in the land of the Kompenie
- Mount Salak in the rain
- A holy grave near Cheribon
- In the Preanger Regencies, Java
- The temple Borobudur
- Borobudur and Tjandi Pawon
- Court dancers at Djocjakarta
- Visitors' day at the palace, Djocjakarta
- The water castle, Djocjakarta
- The living ornament
- Painting in the Kraton, Djocjakarta
- The Susuhunan receives
- The artist in the Kraton, Solo
- A Wayang performance in the Mangkoonegaran
- Wayang players
- Poodyon
- Tosari and Mount Bromo
- Barang Lama
- Madura Island
- Concert giving
- To Bali
- Bali
- Makassar
- Banyermasin
- Balikpapan: oil town
- Palembang, South Sumatra
- Across South Sumatra
- In central Sumatra
- A Chinese festival
- Medan and the Batak lands
- Piso piso
- Singapore
- Malta.
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