Television host Jeff Corwin introduces several Indonesian animals, including the Komodo dragon and the world's largest bat, describing their physical features, habitats, diets, and defense mechanisms.
Tells the story of the genocide that occurred in East Timor after the half-island was invaded by Indonesia in 1975, and the violence that erupted again in 1999 when the population voted for independence from Indonesia, assesses the politics and history behind the events, and argues that armed intervention supported by the U.S., Australia, and the United Kingdom was the key to averting a second genocide in 1999.
Provides information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Indonesia.
Despite recurring nightmares about her mother's death and her own fear of flying, fifteen-year-old Sienna accepts her father's birthday gift to fly to Indonesia with his team of disaster relief workers to help victims of a recent tsunami, never suspecting that this experience will change her life forever.
Just when it seems that international crook Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all, he convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who is hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill, if the two don't kill each other first.
A mysterious drifter named Axel Heyst rescues a troubled girl from a seedy tropical hotel and takes her home to Samburan, his own island in the East Indies, unaware they are being followed by three intruders who will bring horror, death, and a strange, haunting victory.
Presents the results of a ten-year study of orangutans, providing a scientific history of the great apes, a description of their physical characteristics, and information about their natural habitat and behavior patterns; and includes a look at the rehabilitation operations at Camp Leakey and Wanariset.
Examines the land, people, history, religion, art, housing, cuisine and traditional dress, marriage and courtship rituals, festivals, social customs, and other facets of life in Indonesia.
In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together their arduous climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother. Includes maps and author's note about the tsunami on which the story is based.
