Java : a traveller's anthology /
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| Imprint: | Kualu Lumpur : Oxford University Press, 1996. |
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| Description: | xxxi, 292 p. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford in Asia paperbacks |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2425561 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / James R. Rush
- 1. Friar Odoric Recalls Java, 1330
- 2. Nicolo Conti Finds Java beyond Civilization, 1444
- 3. Edmund Scott Describes Bantam, Java Major, 1606
- 4. Francois Leguat Reveals the Strange Ways of Batavia, 1708
- 5. Alexander Hamilton Reconnoitres Java's North Coast with Commerce in Mind, 1727
- 6. Sir Joseph Banks Survives Three Months in Java, 1770
- 7. Sir John Barrow Visits Dutch Batavia, 1792
- 8. Thomas Stamford Raffles Discovers Java's Antiquities, 1815
- 9. Charles Walter Kinloch Takes a Cure, 1852
- 10. J. W. B. Money Finds Java a Happy Spot, Indeed, 1858
- 11. Albert S. Bickmore Visits a Sugar Plantation, 1868
- 12. Alfred Russel Wallace Declares Java 'The Finest Tropical Island in the World', 1869
- 13. Henry O. Forbes Espies the Old and New Batavia and Observes Nature in West Java, 1879
- 14. John Whitehead Ascends Mount Bromo, 1880s
- 15. David Fairchild Remembers the Java of His Youth, 1896
- 16. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore Declares Java 'Finished', 1897
- 17. H. M. Tomlinson Reluctantly Disembarks in Java, 1923
- 18. Augusta de Wit Romanticizes 'A Native of Java', 1923
- 19. Helen Churchill Candee Observes the 'Conquering Race Eating His Mid-day Snack', 1927
- 20. Charlotte Stryker and Family Weather the Monsoon, 1920s
- 21. John C. Van Dyke Admires Malang, 1929
- 22. Harriet W. Ponder: The World's Model Colony is a Motorist's Paradise, 1935
- 23. Geoffrey Gorer Looks beyond the Colonial Gaze, 1935
- 24. David Fairchild Views Java from the Air, 1940
- 25. Peter Kemp Arrives in Java at War's End, 1945
- 26. S. J. Perelman Witnesses the End of an Era, 1949
- 27. Harold Forster Finds His Place in the New Indonesia, 1952
- 28. Arthur Goodfriend Scouts Java for the Free World, 1958
- 29. Frank and Helen Schreider Search for the Indies of Old, 1963
- 30. Maslyn Williams Seeks the Truth in Sukarno's Indonesia, 1965
- 31. Eliot Elisofon Shoots Udjung Kulon, 1967
- 32. Christopher Lucas Says Java is 'A Happening', 1970
- 33. V. S. Naipaul among Java's Believers, 1981
- 34. John and Iris Do Yogya, 1984
- 35. Richard Critchfield Goes Back to Java, 1985.