Indonesia (guide book)
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Indonesia is a traveller's guide book first published in 1986 in Australia, which has since gone into 8 editions. It is a country-specific guidebook for Indonesia following on from the strength of the South East Asia guidebook by Maureen and Tony Wheeler's Lonely Planet publishing. It has expanded to cover most geographical features and visitor attractions that exist in Indonesia. It includes many locations that only the more seasoned travellers might reach, and it appears to achieve currency of information about facilities.
It was a natural successor in size and format to Bill Dalton's Indonesia Handbook which was similarly a very large 1,000 page guide book by its later editions and which ceased at the time the Lonely Planet editions were starting and being developed. In providing comprehensive information about the whole country, it provides both essential information and considerable details about places the average traveller is unlikely to ever be able to visit while travelling in Indonesia.
Current competitors to the guide book tend to be created either in the European or North American book markets - and the proximity and ease of access for the writers from Australia and other asian countries - tends to create a more thorough coverage. In the transition to readily available travel information on the internet rather than published sources, the guide in recent editions has lessened book and further reading information for that of net sources.
The 8th edition is current, dated 2007.
[edit] Writers and editors
- First edition - Allan Samalgaski, Ginny Bruce and Mary Covernton
- Fifth edition - Peter Turner, Brendan Delahunty, Paul Greenway, James Lyon, Chris Taylor and David Willett
- Seventh edition - Patrick Witton, Mark Elliot, Paul Greenway, Virginia Jealous, Etain O'Carroll, Nick Ray, Alan Tarbell, Matt Warren
- Eighth edition - Justine Vaisutis, Neal Bedford, Mark Elliott, Nick Ray, Iain Stewart, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, China Williams, Patrick Witton and Wendy Yanagihara.
[edit] Publishing details
- Indonesia (1997) Fifth edition. Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, Hawthorn, Victoria ISBN 0-86442-454X
- Witton, Patrick (2003). Indonesia (7th edition). Melbourne: Lonely Planet Pty Ltd. ISBN 1-74059-154-2.
- Indonesia (2007) Eighth edition. Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, Footscray, Victoria ISBN 978-1-74164-435-5
