Helen Creese, Ph.D. (1982), Australian National University, is Associate Professor in Indonesian at the University of Queensland. She has published widely on Balinese history, textual traditions and literature.

"The book is a major achievement in the study of Balinese history and culture. The complex of letters, sometimes in a fragmentary and unfinished state, offers a vast panorama of Bali in the early nineteenth century, seen by a prejudiced but sharp-eyed official who had seen much of this world. [...] The highly useful and down-to-earth comments by Helen Creese, together with her meticulous efforts to trace the life and times of Pierre Dubois, makes the book an inexhaustible source of information." – Hans Hägerdal, Linnaeus University, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 175 (2019), p. 81–135.

• PrefaceEditorial principles and conventionsList of IllustrationsPart 1: Historical and Cultural ContextCh. 1: The Textual Traces of a Colonial Life: Pierre Dubois (ca. 1776-1838)Ch. 2: Overtures: The Dutch in Bali, 1808-1826Ch. 3: The Recruitment Post at KutaCh. 4: The Transcendent Art of Balinese PoliticsCh. 5: The Return to Kuta, 1829-1831Ch. 6: The Kuta Post: An AssessmentCh. 7: An Accidental EthnographerCh. 8: In Pursuit of Truth: Dubois in the FieldCh. 9: A Textual Cabinet of Curiosities: Commentaries on History, Society, Religion and RitualCh. 10: The Dubois Manuscripts: Transmission and IntertextualityCh. 11: A Textual Postscript: The Journey of the ManuscriptsPart 2: Pierre Dubois: Légère Idée de Balie en 1830List of LettersLetters – French TranscriptionPart 3: Pierre Dubois: Sketch of Bali in 1830List of LettersLetters – English TranslationGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Helen Creese, Ph.D. (1982), Australian National University, is Associate Professor in Indonesian at the University of Queensland. She has published widely on Balinese history, textual traditions and literature.

"The book is a major achievement in the study of Balinese history and culture. The complex of letters, sometimes in a fragmentary and unfinished state, offers a vast panorama of Bali in the early nineteenth century, seen by a prejudiced but sharp-eyed official who had seen much of this world. [...] The highly useful and down-to-earth comments by Helen Creese, together with her meticulous efforts to trace the life and times of Pierre Dubois, makes the book an inexhaustible source of information." – Hans Hägerdal, Linnaeus University, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 175 (2019), p. 81–135.

• PrefaceEditorial principles and conventionsList of IllustrationsPart 1: Historical and Cultural ContextCh. 1: The Textual Traces of a Colonial Life: Pierre Dubois (ca. 1776-1838)Ch. 2: Overtures: The Dutch in Bali, 1808-1826Ch. 3: The Recruitment Post at KutaCh. 4: The Transcendent Art of Balinese PoliticsCh. 5: The Return to Kuta, 1829-1831Ch. 6: The Kuta Post: An AssessmentCh. 7: An Accidental EthnographerCh. 8: In Pursuit of Truth: Dubois in the FieldCh. 9: A Textual Cabinet of Curiosities: Commentaries on History, Society, Religion and RitualCh. 10: The Dubois Manuscripts: Transmission and IntertextualityCh. 11: A Textual Postscript: The Journey of the ManuscriptsPart 2: Pierre Dubois: Légère Idée de Balie en 1830List of LettersLetters – French TranscriptionPart 3: Pierre Dubois: Sketch of Bali in 1830List of LettersLetters – English TranslationGlossaryBibliographyIndex