Willem Brandt. 1948. De Aarde van Deli. The Hague: van Hoeve
Dixon, C. J. 1913. De Assistent in Deli. Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy.
Dixon gives advice on how to become an assistant in Deli tobacco plantation.
Gorter, Hendrik. 1941. Delianen: schetsen uit het plantersleven op Sumatra’s Oostkust. Amsterdam: L. J. Veen.
Gorter, Hendrik. 1953. Tabakkers : tweede bundel scheteen uit het plantersleven op Sumatra’s oostkust. Amsterdam : L.J. Veen.
Kleian, Johannes. 1936. Deli-Planter. The Hague: van Hoeve.
Manders, Jo. 1933. De Boedjang-Club. Gravenhage: H. P. Leopold.
Petersen, Tscherning H. 1948. Tropical Adventure. London: J. Rolls.
Published in Danish as Singkeh. Life as an Assistant-Employee on two Deli Estates, Tanah Merah (Oil-palm) and ‘Haboko’ (Tea), which includes notes on Concubinage and the female housekeeper, the Njai, and on local Batak population.
Apie Prins. 1958. Ik ga m’n eige Baan.
Biography of a bohemian of the first half of the twentieth century, Apie Prins (1894-1958). He was a tobacco planter, gold digger and dishwasher in distant lands and, according to his own words, he also had a relationship with Mata Hari during the First World War.
Szekely, Ladislao. 1979 [1937]. Tropic Fever: The Adventures of a Planter in Sumatra. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford in Asia.
Szekely-Lulofs, Madelon. 1932. Rubber. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Szekely-Lulofs, Madelon. 1932. Coolie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Szekely-Lulofs, Madelon. 1932. De Andere Wereld. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Writers who have lived in Deli
Emil Helfferich (1878-1974) Südostasiatische Geschichten (Jever/Oldenburg, 1966)
Websites:
http://www.derkjordaan.com/het-avontuurlijke-plantersleven-in-asahan-en-bila/
Contemporary Novels
Strange Adventures in a Foreign Country 异乡奇遇 Yi Xiang Qi Yu is a novel by Hong Sisi (洪丝丝). Beijing 1979.
A. Goedhart, Het wonder van Deli. Uit de geschiedenis van de cultures op Sumatra ‘s Oostkust [Alphen aan den Rijn]: Albini, 2002, , ISBN 90 6714 089 9).
Jacob Vis. 2012. Tandem.
Stories from Deli 
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