An Empire of the East by Norman Lewis

An Empire of the East by Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when he embarked on a series of three arduous journeys into the most contentious corners of Indonesia: unearthing rain forest and aboriginal decimation, massacres and, perhaps most chilling of all, copper mining on a scale that brings the film Avatar to mind - but this time the bad guys triumph. He presents himself as a picture of innocence, reporting only what he sees, but using his well-honed tools of irony, humor, and restraint, he points a finger directly at the country's ruling generals.

'As a witness to his own times - the good, the bad and the ludicrous - he is unmatched' - Sunday Times

Norman Lewis' early childhood, as recalled in Jackdaw Cake, was spent partly with his Welsh spiritualist parents in Enfield, North London, and partly with his eccentric aunts in Wales. Forgoing a place at university for lack of funds, he used the income from photography to finance travels to Spain, Italy and the Balkans, before being approached by the Colonial Office to spy for them with his camera in Yemen. It was from his service in the Intelligence Corps during the Second World War that his masterpiece, Naples '44, emerged. Norman Lewis wrote thirteen novels and thirteen works of non-fiction, mostly travel books, but he regarded his life's major achievement to be the reaction to an article written by him entitled Genocide in Brazil, published in the Sunday Times in 1968. This led to a change in the Brazilian law relating to the treatment of Indians, and to the formation of Survival International.

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ISBN 13	9781780601021
ISBN 10	1780601026
Title	An Empire of the East
Author	Norman Lewis
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Eland Publishing Ltd
Year published	2014-04-04
Number of pages	280
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