Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my wife Yusra Zahari Burnet and my daughters Miranda and
Melissa, who have supported me in all my writing ventures.
Thanks go to Toni Pollard and Sia Arnason who provided invaluable comments
and corrections on the preliminary and final draft of this work. Thanks also to Dave
Pollard for his comments and corrections on the ‘science’ chapters and to Dick and
Ann Heller who introduced me to the work of Alexander von Humboldt
Thanks to Jefffey Mellefont for his contribution of the image of the Bugis prahu and
to Damon Ramsey for his information on the botany of Northern Australia. Thanks
also to Russell Darnley OAM who reviewed the manuscript for Rosenberg Publishing.
My thanks as well to the librarians of the State Library of New South Wales, the
Stanton Library in North Sydney, the Willoughby Library in Chatswood and the
Indonesian Heritage Society Library in Jakarta.
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