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Tag Archives: Macassar
Joseph Conrad’s Eastern World – National Geographic, March 1924
The Earth is a stage, and though it may be an advantage, even to the right comprehension of the play, to know its exact configuration, it is always the drama of human endeavour that will be the thing, with a … Continue reading
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Joseph Conrad’s EASTERN VOYAGES – Book Review by Mark Heyward
The title caught my eye immediately: Joseph Conrad’s Eastern Voyages, Tales of Singapore and an East Borneo River. The cover, with its image of sailing ships and steamships in Singapore whet my appetite for a bookish journey back to some … Continue reading
Asian Review of Books – Joseph Conrad’s EASTERN VOYAGES
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is perhaps the most famous example of a multicultural writer in the history of British literature. His novels have been translated, serialized, made into movies, and taught at numerous schools and universities throughout the English-speaking world and … Continue reading
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Fact from Fiction – A Review of Conrad’s EASTERN VOYAGES
For many of us, Joseph Conrad is a famous English author known for such books as Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, on which the films of the same name are based. Those of us who live in Sydney may, … Continue reading
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Tagged Almayers Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Berau River, ianburnet, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Macassar, singapore, Tanjung Redeb, The Rescue, Vidar
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Alfred Russel Wallace – The voyage to Aru
The British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was the greatest of all archipelago travellers in his search for rare and exotic natural history specimens to send back from eastern Indonesia to collectors in Britain. Macassan traders made annual voyages to the … Continue reading
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‘East Indies’ at the Australian National Maritime Museum
Book launch: East Indies book talk by Ian Burnet Sunday 16 February 2014| 2 pm – 4 pm A fascinating talk about the spice trade and its little known associated collateral. It documents the 200 year struggle between the Portuguese … Continue reading
‘East Indies’ — The first book reviews have started coming out
The book reviews for ‘East Indies’ have started coming out and here is what they say: East Indies —- Book Review When you read East Indies by Ian Burnet, you can almost smell exotic spices over salt spray and wet … Continue reading
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Tagged banda, batavia, cloves, Deshima, dutch east india company, East India Company, english east india company, hong kong, jakarta, Johore, Macassar, malacca, maluku, moluccas, nutmeg, Riau, singapore, spice islands, VOC
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