 | Maluku: Indonesian Spice Islands (Periplus Adventure Guides) by Kal Muller
Buy used from: £19.99 The only travel guide to Maluku
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 | Ecology of Nusa Tenggara and Maluku: Vol IV (The Ecology of Indonesia Series) by Kathryn A Monk
Excellent book on a range of issues - geography, natural history, conservation, peoples...
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 | The Ten Thousand Things (New York Review Books Classics) by Maria Dermout
Buy used from: £6.69 A beautifully-written, classic novel about life, murders and magic on Ambon - written by a woman who lived in Maluku and knows its people & culture very well
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 | Magellan's Voyage: v. 1: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure) by Antonio Pigafetta
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £6.29 A first-hand account of Magellan's historic voyage to Maluku, circumnavigating the world for the first time
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 | The Malay Archipelago (Library of the Indies) by Alfred Russel Wallace
Buy used from: £24.00 The most famous Indonesia-travelogue by 19th century English naturalist Alfred Wallace, giving a detailed account of much of Maluku
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 | Unbeaten Tracks in Islands of the Far East: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the 1880's (Oxford Paperbacks) by Anna Forbes
Buy used from: £0.86 Description of another English naturalist's journey to Central and Southeast Maluku in the late 19th century
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 | Ibu Maluku: The Story of Jeanne Van Diejen by Ron Heynneman
Buy used from: £21.75 The story of a remarkable Dutch woman's life in Maluku between 1920 and 1957
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| Ambon: Island of Spices by Shirley Deane
Buy used from: £4.99 An excellent book - the best post-independence description of South Maluku
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 | The Spice Islands Voyage by Timothy Severin
Buy used from: £0.01 An attempt to recreate Wallace's voyages, the most recent travelogue on Maluku - certainly not the best one though
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| Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands by Timothy Flannery
Buy used from: £75.52 A stunning, complete guide to the mammals of Maluku - except the Southwest from Tanimbar to Wetar
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| The Birds of Wallacea: An Annotated Checklist by C.M.N. White
Buy used from: £199.95 A complete guide to the birds of Maluku - except the Aru Islands
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| The Forgotten Islands of Indonesia: The Art and Culture of the Southeast Moluccas by Nico De Jonge
Buy used from: £73.47 A beautiful book devoted to the the culture and crafts of Southeast Maluku
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 | The Memory of Trade: Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island by Patricia Spyer
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £5.68 A readable ethnography of the Barakai people of the Aru Islands, Southeast Maluku
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 | The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas by Valerio Valeri
Buy used from: £21.93 A scholarly ethnography of an interior people of Seram, Central Maluku
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| The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period by Leonard Y. Andaya
Buy used from: £235.71 Probably the best, most thoroughly-researched book on the history of Maluku available
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 | The Scents of Eden: A History of the Spice Trade: A Narrative of the Spice Trade by Charles Corn
Buy new: £8.30 / Used from: £5.28 An easy-to-read history of the spice-trade, mostly covering events in Maluku
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 | Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 A history of English involvement in the Banda Islands of Central Maluku
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| Indonesian Banda: Colonialism and Its Aftermath in the Nutmeg Islands by Willard A. Hanna
A more comprehensive history of the Banda Islands
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| Nationalists, soldiers and separatists: The Ambonese islands from colonialism to revolt 1880-1950 by Richard Chauvel
An excellent history of Ambon and the Lease Islands
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 | On the Edge of the Banda Zone: Past and Present in the Social Organization of a Moluccan Trading Network by Roy Ellen
Buy new: £23.28 A history of trade in the remote East Seram region of Maluku
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| Turbulent times past in Ternate and Tidore by Willard A Hanna
A rather comprehensive, though somewhat poorly-written history of these two North Malukkan sultanates
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| Halmahera and Beyond: Social Science Research in the Moluccas by Land- End Volkenkunde (Netherlands) Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-
Buy used from: £26.97 An excellent collection of writings on the history and ethnography of Maluku
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| The Central Moluccas: An Annotated Bibliography by Katrien Polman
Buy used from: £6.73 A very detailed bibliography with an excellent chapter on the history of Central Maluku
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| The North Moluccas: An Annotated Bibliography by Katrien Polman
A bibliography of North Maluku, also containing a summary of its history
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| Maluku: The History , Societies, and Cultures of an Indonesian Province: A Bibliography of Texts in the English Language by Patricia Horvatich
An excellent, recent bibliography of English-language publications on Maluku
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