
A Brief History of Indonesia
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
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Narrated by:
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Derek Perkins
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By:
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Tim Hannigan
Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth-largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand years and more.
Indonesia is the fabled "Spice Islands" of every school child's dreams - one of the most colorful and fascinating countries in history. These are the islands that Europeans set out on countless voyages of discovery to find and later fought bitterly over in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. This was the land that Christopher Columbus sought, and Magellan actually reached and explored. One tiny Indonesian island was even exchanged for the island of Manhattan in 1667!
This fascinating history book tells the story of Indonesia as a narrative of kings, traders, missionaries, soldiers, and revolutionaries, featuring stormy sea crossings, fiery volcanoes, and the occasional tiger.
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Very Deeply Informative
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Informative and engaging
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A much-needed, accessible history of Indonesia
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Amazing book
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More Indonesian history please Audible
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Fantastically researched, written and narrarated.
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Broad overview...
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Since I was born in Indonesia in 1937 and was in a Japanese concentration camp with my mother in mid Java, this book really spoke to me.
The book is very well written.
As usual, colonialism did a lot of damage to the population and on the other hand also good, although we will never know how a country would have developed had there not been colonialism.
I highly recommend this book to those who study world history, in particular colonialism.
The narrator, mr. Derek Perkins, was a pleasure to listen to.
My thanks to all involved, JK.
WELL DONE
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Very informative
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Excellent writing
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