Bali Re-visited

[A. G. Maisey]

I invariably have a number of books laying around the house that I read in bits and pieces, mostly while I'm doing something else.

I read over breakfast and lunch. Don't read over dinner because I usually don't have dinner.

I read while I'm watching TV or DVD's.

I've got a book that deals with backache open on the desk beside me as I use this computer.

For years, my method of reading has been to speed read --- scan a page until I note something of interest, read that carefully a couple of times, then go back to scanning. I don't read for entertainment, I read to gain knowledge.

A couple of days back I opened up Miguel Covarrubais' "Island of Bali" --- I was looking for info on the form of the eye in Balinese art --- and I've been trapped into a slow, recreational read of this book.

I last read it in probably the late 1970's, but I'm now reading it slowly again, just for enjoyment. I'd forgotten what a really great book this is.

For those of you who have not yet read it, I give it my highest recommendation:-

Miguel Covarrubais, "Island of Bali"

many different editions.

[Gustav]

A silent movie filmed by Covarrubias in Bali (gamelan with the probably most famous balinese dancer, I Marya (or Mario): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmy3vJVH190

[Rick]

Thanks, I'll look for it .

Not expensive in paperback at all . :)
Don't know if the pictures are included in the P-Back edition . :shrug:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=covarrubias&tn=Island+of+bali&x=64&y=15

[A. G. Maisey]

My edition is the Oxford University Press paperback.

The illustrations in this are not too bad, I don't know about the other paperbacks.

The illustrations are important.

I have handled one old edition in hardback, and my memory of that is that the illustrations were excellent.

[Rick]

Yeh,
I checked Amazon and the H-B copies from the '30's run US $40.00 plus .

[A. G. Maisey]

I think the hardback that I handled was in the Mitchell Library in Sydney, and I'm pretty sure it was this one:-

http://www.rubylane.com/shops/molotov/item/4774

but the plates in my Oxford edition are pretty OK too.