Indonesia Etc Paperback by Elizabeth Pisani

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2015-06-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 416 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393351279
• Item Weight: 385.56 grams
• Dimensions: 20.98 x 14.05 x 2.77 cm

"A spectacular achievement and one of the very best travel books I have read." —Simon Winchester, Wall Street Journal

Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would "work out the details of the transfer of power etc. as soon as possible." With over 300 ethnic groups spread across over 13,500 islands, the world’s fourth most populous nation has been working on that "etc." ever since. Author Elizabeth Pisani traveled 26,000 miles in search of the links that bind this disparate nation.

About the Author

Elizabeth Pisani has lived in Indonesia at various times over the past twenty-five years, originally as a journalist and later as an HIV epidemiologist. The author of The Wisdom of Whores and Indonesia Etc., she is based in London.