Mangku Ketut Liyer became world famous for his role as Elizabeth Gilbert’s guru in her 2006 best-selling book Eat, Pray, … More Pray, Magic, Heal: The Story of Ketut Liyer by David Stuart-Fox →

Myth, Magic and Mystery is a book of stories on the Bali’s origin myths, ancestor deities, spiritual obligations, ceremonies and … More Myth, Magic and Mystery in Bali by Jean Couteau →

  Paul Sochaczewski is not your ordinary travel writer. His first visit to Southeast Asia was to the East Malaysian … More Curious Encounters of the Human Kind – Indonesia by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski →

In 1936 anthropologists Margaret Mead (1901-1978) and her husband, Gregory Bateson (1904-1979), moved to Bali and stayed for three years. … More Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson and Highland Bali by Gerald Sullivan →

During his childhood in war-time England, Tony Gwilliam learned to tell the difference between German bombers and fighters over the … More Far From Boring by Tony Gwilliam →

What scrub is best for body cleansing? Can saunas rebalance the body? Is there an effective re-hydrating mask for men? … More The Spa Guru’s Home Spa: Enjoy Professional Spa Treatments at Home by Shari Hartman →

This ambitious, sweeping history surveys both the cataclysmic shifts of continents and also the lives of some of the world’s … More Where Australia Collides with Asia by Ian Burnet →

In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, then senior anthropologist at The British Museum, taught himself Indonesian and set off for the … More Toraja by Nigel Barley →

Floating Threads is devoted to explaining and illustrating the rich variety of supplementary float weave techniques – commonly known as … More Floating Threads by Judi Achjadi →

Bali Raw and Bali Undercover claim to expose Bali’s underside: rampant prostitution, turf wars waged between local gangs and vicious … More Bali Raw and Bali Undercover by Malcolm Scott →

The commercialization of agriculture, increasing landlessness and the exploitation of an expanding labor class are the overriding themes of Factory … More Factory Daughters by Diane L. Wolf →

Photographer and writer Michael Dean Morgan has admirably captured in his new Looking for Bali the rhythms of everyday Balinese life. In … More Looking for Bali by Michael Dean Morgan →

There are no shortages of excellent scholarly histories about Bali. Henk Schulte Nordholt’s heavy weight The Spell of Power and … More A Brief History of Bali by Willard A. Hanna and Tim Hannigan →

Among the scores of memoirs written by military men describing their wartime survival stories and escapes from POW camps, two … More Survival Stories by Land and by Sea →

As it’s provocative title suggests, the long, slow, irreversible death of primitive art is the subject of this important, very … More The Death of Authentic Primitive Art by Shelly Errington →

These two Indonesian language books, though meant for readerships at opposite ends of the spectrum of life experience, are both … More Survival Indonesian and My First Book of Indonesian Words →