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Java and the East Indies

Frank G. Carpenter (1855 - 1924)

Another installment in Carpenter's travels of the world. This time we visit Java, the East Indies, Sumatra, Borneo, The Moluccas, New Guinea, Celebes and the Malay Peninsula. (Summary by Betty)

Genre(s): Travel & Geography

Language: English

Keyword(s): culture (77), agriculture (30), Royalty (22), industry (19), tourism (5), peoples (5)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Just a Word Before We Start	BettyB	00:03:36
Play 02	In Old Batavia	BettyB	00:13:12
Play 03	A Day at Weltervreden	BettyB	00:11:36
Play 04	Dutch Rule in the East Indies	BettyB	00:14:05
Play 05	How Java Paid Its Way	BettyB	00:08:43
Play 06	On a Big Tea Plantation	BettyB	00:17:03
Play 07	The Netherlands India Army	BettyB	00:11:45
Play 08	In and Around Bandong	BettyB	00:20:03
Play 09	How Quinine is Produced	BettyB	00:18:55
Play 10	Across Java by Rail	BettyB	00:10:22
Play 11	In the Rice Fields	BettyB	00:08:36
Play 12	The Initiation of a Prince	BettyB	00:12:16
Play 13	Within the Sultan's Palace City	BettyB	00:10:16
Play 14	The Women of Java	BettyB	00:17:32
Play 15	The Shrine of a Thousand Buddhas	BettyB	00:21:12
Play 16	The Sultan of Solo	BettyB	00:21:50
Play 17	On the Coffee Estates	BettyB	00:14:46
Play 18	Volcanoes of the Land of Fire	BettyB	00:11:06
Play 19	The Sand Sea and the Bromo	BettyB	00:10:10
Play 20	Surabaya, the Sugar Centre	BettyB	00:16:31
Play 21	Colonial Life in the Dutch East Indies	BettyB	00:18:15
Play 22	Cruising Through the Sunda Sea	BettyB	00:09:38
Play 23	The Rajah of Lombok as Tax Collector	BettyB	00:07:49
Play 24	Celebes and the Moluccas	BettyB	00:06:44
Play 25	The Home of Birds of Paradise	BettyB	00:16:07
Play 26	Tattooed Debutantes and Wasp-Waisted Men	BettyB	00:18:11
Play 27	Borneo, An Outpost of Colonization	BettyB	00:17:03
Play 28	The Head-Hunting Dyaks	BettyB	00:17:32
Play 29	About Sumatra	BettyB	00:22:48
Play 30	Singapore, A Gateway of the Orient	BettyB	00:17:55
Play 31	Chinese Workers and Malay Drones	BettyB	00:19:11
Play 32	John Bull in Malaya	BettyB	00:10:34
Play 33	The Sultan of Johore	BettyB	00:07:53

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