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“A spectacular achievement and one of the very best travel books I have read.
” —Simon Winchester, Wall Street Journal Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would “work out the details of the transfer of power etc. as soon as possible.
” With over 300 ethnic groups spread across over 13,500 islands, the world’s fourth most populous nation has been working on that “etc.
” ever since. Author Elizabeth Pisani traveled 26,000 miles in search of the links that bind this disparate nation.