De Vreede - Selamat Merdeka. Orig. Edn.

Amsterdam/Antwerpen, Atlas/Contact, 1997. Orig. limp coloured glossy wrapper, illustration on front wrapper by author, design of wrappers by Marjo Starink. 320pp. Sketch-maps of Java and the Minahasa, Northern Sulawesi, on endpapers, concise bibliography, register, table of abbreviations used, table of contents. Author's stay in Indonesia at the time of the 50th. anniversary of independence, 17th. august 1945-17th august 1995, re-visiting places of her childhood on Java and the Minahasa, Northern Sulawesi, jotting down stories and experiences of local people pertaining to their feelings on the revolutionary period and Indonesia's independence, incl. her own recollections on the japanese occupation of Indonesia during the Pacific war, her stay in various internment-camps and the revolutionary period shortly after the japanese surrender and liberation of Indonesia. Paperback edn. (as orig. publ.). Good to very good copy. (name of previous owner on recte of hftitle).