In the time of madness : Indonesia on the edge of chaos /
Parry, Richard Lloyd,
In the time of madness : Indonesia on the edge of chaos / Richard Lloyd Parry. - First American edition. - 315 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Prologue: Bad Dreams in Bali 1996 -- Something Close to Shame: Borneo 1997-1999 -- What Young Men Do -- The Best People -- The Radiant Light: Java 1998 -- Krismon -- Time of Madness -- Strength Without Sorcery -- The Sack of Jakarta -- The Wayang -- Ascension Day -- The Shark Cage: East Timor 1998-1999 -- The Crocodile -- With Falintil -- Vampires -- Eagle of Liberty -- Flat of the Blade -- The Compound -- In The Well.
"In the last years of the twentieth century, foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious, and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years, it had been paralyzed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General Suharto, but now the age of Suharto was coming to an end. Would freedom prevail, or merely lawlessness?" "On the island of Bomeo, tribesmen embarked on a savage war of headhunting and cannibalism. Vast jungles burned uncontrollably; money lost its value; there were plane crashes and volcanic eruptions. After the tumultuous fall of Suharto came the vote on independence from Indonesia for the tiny occupied country of East Timor. And it was here, trapped in the besieged compound of the United Nations, that Lloyd Parry reached his own breaking point." "A book of hair-raising immediacy and a riveting account of a voyage into the abyss, In the Time of Madness is an accomplishment in the great tradition of Conrad, Orwall, and Ryszard Kapuscinski."--BOOK JACKET.
0802118089 9780802118080
2005050302
Parry, Richard Lloyd--Travel--Indonesia.
Indonesia--Description and travel
Timor-Leste--History--Autonomy and independence movements
DS620.2 / .P37 2006
959.8039
In the time of madness : Indonesia on the edge of chaos / Richard Lloyd Parry. - First American edition. - 315 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Prologue: Bad Dreams in Bali 1996 -- Something Close to Shame: Borneo 1997-1999 -- What Young Men Do -- The Best People -- The Radiant Light: Java 1998 -- Krismon -- Time of Madness -- Strength Without Sorcery -- The Sack of Jakarta -- The Wayang -- Ascension Day -- The Shark Cage: East Timor 1998-1999 -- The Crocodile -- With Falintil -- Vampires -- Eagle of Liberty -- Flat of the Blade -- The Compound -- In The Well.
"In the last years of the twentieth century, foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious, and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years, it had been paralyzed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General Suharto, but now the age of Suharto was coming to an end. Would freedom prevail, or merely lawlessness?" "On the island of Bomeo, tribesmen embarked on a savage war of headhunting and cannibalism. Vast jungles burned uncontrollably; money lost its value; there were plane crashes and volcanic eruptions. After the tumultuous fall of Suharto came the vote on independence from Indonesia for the tiny occupied country of East Timor. And it was here, trapped in the besieged compound of the United Nations, that Lloyd Parry reached his own breaking point." "A book of hair-raising immediacy and a riveting account of a voyage into the abyss, In the Time of Madness is an accomplishment in the great tradition of Conrad, Orwall, and Ryszard Kapuscinski."--BOOK JACKET.
0802118089 9780802118080
2005050302
Parry, Richard Lloyd--Travel--Indonesia.
Indonesia--Description and travel
Timor-Leste--History--Autonomy and independence movements
DS620.2 / .P37 2006
959.8039