Empire of the Winds
Empire of the Winds Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantaria…
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Empire of the Winds
Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantaria encompasses the lands and shores created by the melting of the ice following the last Ice Age. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly wider world but one with a single linguistic, cultural and trading base.
The surrounding waters have always been uniquely important as a corridor connecting East Asia to India, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.In this book, Philip Bowring provides a history of the world's largest and most important archipelago and its adjacent coasts. These have long been primarily the domain of the Austronesian-speaking peoples and their seafaring traditions. He tells the story of the peoples and lands