La Route de Bandung. [1re édition; First edition].

BAUMIER, Jean,

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Paris, Les Editeurs Français Réunis, 1956. Small 8°. Original glossy limp illustrated and coloured wrappers with covertitle in bold black type. 206pp. Captioned monochrome illustrations after photographs on 11 plates, featuring conference attendants, local bandung topography, double-page sketch-map at rear illustrating attending AFRO-ASIAN member countries, tootnotes, list of author's other publications on verso of french title, publ. list on lower outer cover, table of contents. First french language edition of a report about proceedings of the Bandung Conference 1955, attending representatives of ASEAN member states, papers submitted and discussed. Good to very good copy. Paperback edn. (as orig.publ.). (some scattered unobtrusive library markings). The first large-scale Asian-African or Afro-Asian Conference -also known as the Bendung conference- was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on April 18-24, 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia. The twenty-five countries that participated represeted approx. 1.5 billion people living in twenty-five newly established states. The conference was organized by Indonesia, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylong (Sri Lanka) and India, coordinated by Roeslan Badulgani, secretary-general of Indonesian foreign affairs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: La Route de Bandung. [1re édition; First edition].
• Binding: Soft cover