Finding Santana. My Perilous Journey in Search of an East Timorese Guerilla Hero.
Australia. Wakefield Press. 2010. Stock ID #212637 In Finding Santana Jill Jolliffe tells of her clandestine journey across the Indonesian archipelago pursued by the Suharto dictatorship's notorious secret police. Her goal is an interview with East Timorese guerilla commander Nino Konis Santana. When referring to this item please quote stockid 212637.
Map, colour photographic illustrations, 177pp, index, notes, paperback.
Part memoir, part adventure story, this book is written from the diaries Jill Jolliffe kept, interwoven with those of intrepid nineteenth-century traveller Anna Forbes, who also narrowly escaped death in the East Timor mountains.
'Finding Santana is a gripping story that is every bit as perilous as the subtitle indicates.' - Bonzer Online Magazine
'This is a dramatic story that is superbly written and it serves as a salutary episode of the history of Australia's relations with Indonesia and East Timor.' - Bonzer Online Magazine
Price: $35.00 AU