From Jungle to Java

In Pura Pura, being unwell is almost an insult to the jungle—unless the doctor gives your ailment a classical Greek name. Then the whole community can celebrate it.

Arthur Louis Keyser’s wry travel tale begins among the forested hills and river paths of a small Malay state, where its European residents take fierce pride in their “splendid isolation.” Officer X., usually quiet at the club, has begun to sigh and complain; the doctor prescribes a change, and his companions settle on Java—similar enough to feel respectable, different enough to make an occasion of it. Soon X. is ordered to write a book about a visit of only a fortnight, while his servant Usoof hopes to find the family he left as a baby. What, exactly, will they discover in Java?

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