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Balians: Traditional Healers of Bali
Our Price: $42.99 $27.66
Format: Paperback, 200 pages
Condition: New
Author: Bradford Keeney (Editor)
Publisher: Leetes Island Books, January 2004
ISBN: 0918172365 EAN: 9780918172365
Dimensions: 25.30 x 16.46 x 2.18 centimetres (0.84 kg)
The 10th volume of the Profiles in Healing series presents the male and female healers from Bali, called Balians; discusses their healing practices; and shares the visions that have defined their way of life. In addition, the Lontar--a sacred text consisting of etchings on dried palm leaves--is presented and its medicinal teachings are explained. Illustrated by beautiful and mystic photos and drawings and accompanied by an audio CD of traditional music and readings from the Lontar, this books provides a penetrating examination of the ancient healing practices of Bali. |
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Diving Bali (Periplus Action Guides)
Diving Bali (Periplus Action Guides)
Our Price: $50.99 $50.37 (Free delivery Australia wide)
Format: Paperback, 224 pages, New title Edition
Condition: New
Author: Wally Siagian, David Pickel
Publisher: Periplus Editions,Hong Kong, 28 July 2000
ISBN: 9625933239 EAN: 9789625933238
Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.0 x 1.3 centimetres (0.43 kg)
Other Information: 84 colour photographs, 21 maps
Country of Publication: China
A dive guidebook to Bali. In addition to showing you where to dive, the authors demonstrate how to appreciate the uniqueness of each site, including shipwrecks, rich black sand bays, clear-current-swept reefs and more. There are large-scale marine maps for every important site, based on charts, GPS data and surveys conducted by the author. Background sections cover marine life and reef ecology, tides and currents, and weather conditions. A practicalities section details prices and contacts for dive operators, accommodations and transportation on the island.
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Photographer Kal Muller was exploring one of the most remote places on earth: Irian Jaya, the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea and home to the Kamoro people, whose culture, it was widely believed, was extinct. By happenstance Muller stumbled upon an initiation ceremony and uncovered a thriving, traditional way of life. With longtime collaborator David Pickell and two Kamoro friends--Aloysius Akiniyau, a guide, and Apollo Takati, a schoolteacher--Muller set out to rediscover the Kamoro people. Traveling by dugout canoe to survey the farflung villages of the Kamoro Coast, their journey took them from the dusty frontier town of Timika to tiny Lakahia Island. Along 200 miles of twisting mangrove creeks and across the relentless Arafura Sea, they discovered a culture undergoing a delicate, sometimes humorous, and often wrenching process of change. Rejecting the bravado and exoticism of recent accounts, Between the Tides is an engrossing work that combines storytelling, humor, history, natural history, and political and cultural observations. David Pickell's relationship to the Kamoro is sensitive and deeply personal, and Kal Muller's accompanying photographs are dramatic and evocative. Together they present a vivid portrait of how an isolated, nomadic past meets a worldly, urban future, how history confronts superstition, and how a false and imposed sense of shame can yield to a new, yet fragile, pride. |
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Blowout Offshore from Bali
Blowout Offshore from Bali
Our Price: $38.99 $36.99
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Condition: New
Author: Russ Long
Publisher: Writers Club Press, June 2002
ISBN: 0595227430 EAN: 9780595227433
Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.55 centimetres (0.40 kg)
Book Description
World Oil Geologist James Wellman, hated by a pirate family for former encounters, is attempting to explore offshore from exotic Bali, Indonesia. The when pirates organize an attempt to stop and destroy the operations by kidnaping a driller and attacking the drillship at a critical time during their exploration as they encounter a high pressure gas formation. |
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Story Cloths of Bali
Story Cloths of Bali
Our Price: $89.99 $55.65 (Free delivery Australia wide)
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Condition: New
Author: Joseph Fischer
Publisher: Ten Speed Press, November 2004
ISBN: 1580084877 EAN: 9781580084871
Dimensions: 26.21 x 26.11 x 1.73 centimetres (0.97 kg)
Story cloths are used as ritual decorations and offerings in Balinese and Hindu temples, household ancestor shrines, and village ceremonial buildings.- Discusses the various stitching techniques employed for each piece, how to determine the skill level of specific stitches, and the cultural significance of each textile.- Includes a glossary of important Balinese characters and terms. |
| A Journey to Bali Coloring Book
A Journey to Bali Coloring Book
Our Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback, 16 pages
Condition: New
Author: Gaia Grant, Sulastri (Illustrator), Satia Dewi (Illustrator)
Publisher: Periplus Editions, February 2005
ISBN: 0794603335 EAN: 9780794603335
Dimensions: 29.36 x 16.41 x 0.18 centimetres (0.09 kg)
The beautiful landscape and people of the exotic tropical island of Bali are depicted in this enchanting book by author Gaia Grant and six young Balinese artists. Children and adults alike will enjoy the wonderous sights and sounds of this innocent artistic impression of the island of the gods. The book follows a young Balinese girl through a beautiful day of dreams, realities and fantasies. This colouring book, aimed at children in the three to ten age groups, provides a fascinating insight into how children in Bali see themselves and their world. Most colouring books only provide black and white outlines to colour in -- but this book contains both the original illustrations on the left hand side of the page and on the right hand side, an outline of the same illustration. Children will have a fun time appreciating the beautiful artwork and having the chance to recreate their own Bali! |
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Bali, Java in My Dreams
Bali, Java in My Dreams
Our Price: $44.99 $27.39
Format: Paperback, 232 pages
Condition: New
Author: Christine Jordis
Publisher: Harvill Press, April 2004
ISBN: 1860469957 EAN: 9781860469954
Dimensions: 20.93 x 14.73 x 1.83 centimetres (0.27 kg)
Relying on sensation and atmosphere over fact and statistic, Christine Jordis has written a deeply personal, vividly impressionistic account of several journeys to the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java. Dazzled, wide-eyed, but always astute, Jordis gives us famous monuments, native dances, run-ins with locals. She conjures the various literary and artistic figures who sought refuge and inspiration there--Arthur Rimbaud, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad. But it is her physical and emotional response to the islands' richness and color that make Bali, Java, in My Dreams an unforgettable journey. Christine Jordis, the English-language fiction editor at the French publishing house Gallimard, is the author of Gens de la Tamise, winner of the Prix Medicis. |
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