We ended in Bali
- Title
- We ended in Bali
- Original language
- English
- Author(s)
- Illustrator(s)
- Sven Gillsäter
- Publisher
- George Allen and Unwin
- ISBN
- —
- Publication date
- 1961
- Subjects
- travel
- bali culture
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Description(s)
This journey to tropical islands began in Lapland, beyond the Arctic Circle, where the author, a famous photographer, was showing his animal pictures to a group of tourists. One of them suddenly suggested that he should go to Indonesia and offered to pay the cost. Although eventually the money was not forthcoming, Sven Gillsäter set out nevertheless and made a romantic and unforgettable journey through the remoter and still primitive parts of the realm of three thousand islands. Taking his cameras, both still and cine, with him and with an eye mainly for the animal and bird life of the tropics (but also for the unspoiled natives, when he could find them), he began his journey in Australia, and from there passed through an astonishing variety of island life. There was Melville Island, an aborigine reserve in the Timor Sea; Heron Island, in the Great Barrier Reef, densely populated with sea birds; the deep jungles of Borneo and their fantastic plant life; remote Dayak communities on the Bornean equator; Komodo, the main objective, with its giant lizards, like dragons; and finally Bali, where civilisation is already making rapid inroads upon the traditional behaviour of the people. This intrepid photographer's adventures are unusual and exciting, and they are recorded with disarming simplicity. His book is lavishly illustrated with his own pictures, in black and white and in colour.
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