What I'm Reading Now -- A Brief History of Indonesia

My friend C lent me a copy of his book, A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation.  Despite its long name, the introduction indicates that it was written by a non-historian traveler to Indonesia who, many moons ago, was looking for a readable yet reasonably comprehensive history.

When he could find none, he spent decades researching, and wrote his own.  I'll see how he did.