Witnesses to Sumatra: A Travellers' Anthology (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks) by Anthony Reid

Witnesses to Sumatra: A Travellers' Anthology (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)

Anthony Reid

328 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Sumatra was a great island of mystery to travellers. The first South-East Asian landfall of sailors from the West since Roman times, it was called ‘Gold Land’ before Java and the other Indonesian islands had become known outside eastern Asia. Even...

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