Exploration & Journeys
Java and the East Indies
Frank G. Carpenter
2026
7h 43m$1.99
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Volcanoes, rice terraces, spices, and an empire run by the Dutch from a very long way off. Carpenter travels Java and the islands reporting what he sees with a newspaperman's appetite for the concrete: the plantations, the harbours, the temples, the markets and the people doing the actual work. The East Indies caught between the old world and the new.
Inside this audiobook
33 chapters
- 1Just a Word Before We Start4m
- 2In Old Batavia13m
- 3A Day at Weltervreden12m
- 4Dutch Rule in the East Indies14m
- 5How Java Paid Its Way9m
- 6On a Big Tea Plantation17m
- 7The Netherlands India Army12m
- 8In and Around Bandong20m
- 9How Quinine is Produced19m
- 10Across Java by Rail10m
- 11In the Rice Fields9m
- 12The Initiation of a Prince12m
- 13Within the Sultan's Palace City10m
- 14The Women of Java18m
- 15The Shrine of a Thousand Buddhas21m
- 16The Sultan of Solo22m
- 17On the Coffee Estates15m
- 18Volcanoes of the Land of Fire11m
- 19The Sand Sea and the Bromo10m
- 20Surabaya, the Sugar Centre17m
- 21Colonial Life in the Dutch East Indies18m
- 22Cruising Through the Sunda Sea10m
- 23The Rajah of Lombok as Tax Collector8m
- 24Celebes and the Moluccas7m
- 25The Home of Birds of Paradise16m
- 26Tattooed Debutantes and Wasp-Waisted Men18m
- 27Borneo, An Outpost of Colonization17m
- 28The Head-Hunting Dyaks18m
- 29About Sumatra23m
- 30Singapore, A Gateway of the Orient18m
- 31Chinese Workers and Malay Drones19m
- 32John Bull in Malaya11m
- 33The Sultan of Johore8m
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