indonesia

In August 1883, a catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java was followed by a tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people. The author brings new perspective to this iconic event, showing how it marked a change in East-West relations.

Just when it seems that international crook Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all, he convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who is hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill, if the two don't kill each other first.

A mysterious drifter named Axel Heyst rescues a troubled girl from a seedy tropical hotel and takes her home to Samburan, his own island in the East Indies, unaware they are being followed by three intruders who will bring horror, death, and a strange, haunting victory.

Presents the results of a ten-year study of orangutans, providing a scientific history of the great apes, a description of their physical characteristics, and information about their natural habitat and behavior patterns; and includes a look at the rehabilitation operations at Camp Leakey and Wanariset.

In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together their arduous climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother. Includes maps and author's note about the tsunami on which the story is based.

A young boy tells what life is like growing up in Indonesia and training to become a bull driver. Includes photographs and information on the culture, geography, and economy of Indonesia.

A biography of Indonesia's president from 1945 to 1967.

Four Indonesian folk tales featuring a small deer whose gentle cunning outwits the other animals in matters of survival.

Discussion and survey of Indonesian decorative arts and the essential role such art plays in the community and lives of the native people.

With gorgeous new packaging, a new introduction, and an updated bibliography, this reissue celebrates the classic novel that set the style for a whole new class of literature: novels of an outcast from civilization finding refuge in the tropics. This is a story of dramatic action and psychological penetration, a work that critic Morton Danwen Zabel calls an example of Conrad's "central theme ... the grip of circumstances that enforce self-discovery and its cognate, the discovery of reality of truth.".