Bali’s Great Dane

A larger-than-life character is still referred to in Denmark as ‘the King of Bali.’

February 19, 2008

Mads Lange: The Bali Trader and Peacemaker
Producer: Peter Bloch
Director/Designer: Leonard Leuras
Publisher: The Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, 2007

WHEN first introduced to the name Mads Lange by Bali-based American publisher and artistic designer Leonard Leuras, I drew a blank. Most certainly, I had not heard of him.

‘Mads’ is a Scandinavian version of ‘Matthew’. As it turns out, Lange was a Danish merchant adventurer of the 19t

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