GUIDE TO JAVA, Peter Hutton & Hans Hoefer

Judul/Title: Guide to Java
Penulis/Author: Peter Hutton & Hans Hoefer
Penerbit/Publisher: Apa Production
Edisi/Edition: 1974
Halaman/Pages: 377
Dimensi/Dimension: 15 x 22 x 2cm
Sampul/Cover: paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 014/Hut/g/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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If the soul of Java could be captured in oils, the result would be subtle and great; a balance of light and shade, nuances of warmth and softness amid brush-strokes with an edge of honed steel; there would be highlights of diamond briliance, green flowing into burning gold, and ruby fire touching fathomless azure.

But to begin with there is a clean canvas and a preliminary sketch of a restless, contradictory subject.

The sketch is of an island lying 6 degree to 9 degree below the equator, more than 12,000 kilometres from London, 17,000 kilometres from New York, and 2,600 kilometres from Tokyo. An island which has the fifth largest in the Indonesian archipelago after Kalimantan, Sumatra, Irian Jaya and Sulawesi. Overland on a map of Europe the archipelago stretches from the west coast of Eire to the Ukraine and Sevastopol in the east, from Berlin in the north to Belgrade and Bucharest in the south, covering an area of more than 10 million square kilometres... and even though much of the archipelago is warm sea and ocean, the total land mass is the size of Mexico, and Java the seize of Greece.