Snow Over Surabaya
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Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel Stewart Walker did just that. Under a multitude of different names ā āKātut Tantriā and āSurabaya Sueā being the best know ā she joined in the struggle for Indonesian independence after the Second World War and broadcast its revolutionary message to the world on Rebel Radio. But she did more and smuggled arms, and probably drugs, to help finance the new Republic and experienced bloody battle in the British attack on Surabaya that some have seen as a war crime. She went on to become an intimate of the revolutionary leaders and finally lived to see Indonesia take its place amongst the free nations of the world.
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Nigel BarleyĀ was born inĀ Kingston upon ThamesĀ in 1947. He gained his bachelor's degree in modern languages atĀ Cambridge University, and hisĀ doctorateĀ inĀ social anthropologyĀ atĀ Oxford University. He worked for some years as an academic at London University and then served from 1980 to 2003 as an assistant keeper ofĀ EthnographyĀ at theĀ British Museum.
Barley's first travel book,Ā The Innocent AnthropologistĀ (1983), gave a popular account of anthropological fieldwork among theĀ DowayoĀ people ofĀ Cameroon. Barley then worked as an anthropologist inĀ Indonesia. His first book based on his time there was the humorousĀ Not a Hazardous SportĀ (1989) describing his anthropological experiences inĀ Tana TorajaĀ in the mountains of centralĀ Sulawesi.
Barley has written on many other subjects includingĀ Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore,Ā andĀ Sir James Brooke, the "white rajah" of Sarawak.Ā He has been twice nominated for theĀ TravelexĀ Writer of the Year Award. In 2002, he won the Foreign Press Association prize forĀ travel writing.
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Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel Stewart Walker did just that. Under a multitude of different names ā āKātut Tantriā and āSurabaya Sueā being the best know ā she joined in the struggle for Indonesian independence after the Second World War and broadcast its revolutionary message to the world on Rebel Radio. But she did more and smuggled arms, and probably drugs, to help finance the new Republic and experienced bloody battle in the British attack on Surabaya that some have seen as a war crime. She went on to become an intimate of the revolutionary leaders and finally lived to see Indonesia take its place amongst the free nations of the world.
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Nigel BarleyĀ was born inĀ Kingston upon ThamesĀ in 1947. He gained his bachelor's degree in modern languages atĀ Cambridge University, and hisĀ doctorateĀ inĀ social anthropologyĀ atĀ Oxford University. He worked for some years as an academic at London University and then served from 1980 to 2003 as an assistant keeper ofĀ EthnographyĀ at theĀ British Museum.
Barley's first travel book,Ā The Innocent AnthropologistĀ (1983), gave a popular account of anthropological fieldwork among theĀ DowayoĀ people ofĀ Cameroon. Barley then worked as an anthropologist inĀ Indonesia. His first book based on his time there was the humorousĀ Not a Hazardous SportĀ (1989) describing his anthropological experiences inĀ Tana TorajaĀ in the mountains of centralĀ Sulawesi.
Barley has written on many other subjects includingĀ Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore,Ā andĀ Sir James Brooke, the "white rajah" of Sarawak.Ā He has been twice nominated for theĀ TravelexĀ Writer of the Year Award. In 2002, he won the Foreign Press Association prize forĀ travel writing.
