title: Archipelago: A Journey Across Indonesia
author:  Ian Burnet 
description: Interspersed with stunning, full color photography, Archipelago: A Journey Across Indonesia is an armchair travellers delight. <br />Author Ian Burnet recounts his journey across this archipelago nation, as well as the heritage and culture of the people who have made it their home across the centuries. <br />The next best thing to touring Indonesia in person Archipelago: A Journey Across Indonesia is a "must read" for travel literature connoisseurs.<br /><br />---- <i>The Midwest Book Review</i><br /><br />Is your body back at work but your head and heart still on holidays? Time for a good travel book and none more engaging than Ian Burnet's newtitle. He hops from island to island (Java to Timor), following thevolcanoes that form Indonesia's spine. Join him for his favoriteBalinese meal, rice field duck "fried so crispy you can crunch on thebones".<br />Or feel the fear of facing a Komodo dragon. Baron Rudolf vonReding Biberegg had the most unfortunate of encounters in 1974 when hefell behind a walking party. All they found on return was the Baron'shat, camera and a bloody shoe. On his Memorial: "He loved naturethroughout his life". Burnet recounts a rule: " Nature lovers shouldstick to the group, otherwise nature may love them back".<br /><br />---- Graham Erbacher, <i>The Australian </i><br /><br />This beautifully illustrated and informative book takes the reader on a journey both through the landscape of Indonesia and also back through Indonesia's past ... His journey is told through personal anecdotes that link directly to historical observations and insight, accompanied on almost every page by often stunning photos taken by him enroute.<br /><br />This is a book that will delight, entice and inform both newcomers to Indonesia and old hands alike.<br /><br />--- Ron Witton, <i>Australia-Indonesia Institute, OurIndonesiaToday blogpost </i>
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  # [_ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS_](toc.html#toc-acknowledgements)
  
  
  Of the many sources I’ve drawn upon in writing this novel, I am particularly
  indebted to _The Malay Archipelago_ by Alfred Russel Wallace (Oxford
  University Press), _The Spice Islands Voyage_ by Tim Severin (Little, Brown),
  and the documentary _Guru Busters_ (Channel 4), a portrait of the Indian
  Rationalists Association.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # [_ALSO BY GREG EGAN FROM GOLLANCZ_](toc.html#toc-ad-card)
  
  
  Quarantine
  
  
  Permutation City
  
  
  Axiomatic
  
  
  Distress
  
  
  Teranesia
  
  
  Luminous
  
  
  Schild’s Ladder
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # [1](toc.html#toc-chapter002)
  
  
  
  
  
  The island was too small for human habitation, and too far from the commonly
  travelled sea routes to serve as a navigation
  
  
  point, so the people of the Kai and Tanimbar Islands had never had reason to
  name it. The Javanese and Sumatran rulers who’d
  
  
  claimed tributes from the Spice Islands would have been oblivious to its
  existence, and Prabir had been unable to locate it
  
  
  on any Dutch or P