Paul Greenway

This BookAnthony Ham updated Jordan for this fifth edition. He built on the work of Paul Greenway and Damien Simonis, who researched the previous editions.From the PublisherThis book was commissioned by Lynne Preston and produced in Lonely Planet's Melbourne office. Huw Fowles was the project...

Foreword ABOUT LONELY PLANET GUIDEBOOKS The story begins with a classic travel adventure: Tony and Maureen Wheeler's 1972 journey across Europe and Asia to Australia. Useful information about the overland trail did not exist at that time, so Tony and Maureen published the first Lonely Planet...

Introduction Ii Like a string of jewels in a coral sea, the 13,000 plus islands of the Indonesian archipelago stretch almost 5000 km from the Asian mainland into the Pacific Ocean. And like jewels the islands have long represented wealth. A thousand years ago the Chinese sailed as far as Timor...

• r., u rs I l ^ fV í'm'I m This Book The monumental task of compiling the 1st edition of Indonesia was the collective work of Alan Samalgaski, who roamed the far reaches of the archipelago, Ginny Bruce, who covered Java, and Mary Covernton, who wrote Sumatra and Bali. For the 2nd edition,...