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Gimlette, John, 1963-
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Gimlette, John, 1963- -- Travel -- Sri Lanka
Historic sites -- Sri Lanka.
Natural history -- Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka -- Description and travel.
Sri Lanka -- Social life and customs.
Sri Lanka -- History.
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Gimlette, John, 1963-
Gimlette, John, 1963- -- Travel -- Sri Lanka
Historic sites -- Sri Lanka.
Natural history -- Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka -- Description and travel.
Sri Lanka -- Social life and customs.
Sri Lanka -- History.
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Elephant complex : travels in Sri Lanka / John Gimlette
by
Gimlette, John, 1963-
Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Call #:
915
.493
G491e
Subjects
Gimlette, John, 1963- -- Travel -- Sri Lanka
Historic sites -- Sri Lanka.
Natural history -- Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka -- Description and travel.
Sri Lanka -- Social life and customs.
Sri Lanka -- History.
ISBN:
9780385351270 (hc.)
Edition:
First United States edition
Description:
xx, 399 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Notes:
"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Map -- Colombo Jumbo -- All Quiet Among the Reservoir Giants -- The Cinnamon Forts -- A State of Perpetual Vacation -- The Garden in the Sky -- Kandy -- Land of Hope and Tea -- The Wild East -- Trinco, Trinco, Little Star -- Multi-barrel Love Enforcer -- The Jaffna Peninsula -- The Shoes on the Shore -- Green As Ever -- Afterword
Summary:
"From the author of Wild Coast and Panther Soup, an eye-opening journey through Sri Lanka that, in the author's inimitable mixture of history, observation, and interpretation, reveals the island nation to us as never before. Writing with his signature eye for the unusually telling detail, his sense of urbane wonder, and his investigative desire for the whole story, John Gimlette takes us from Sri Lanka's exuberant capital city of Colombo to the dry interior where more than 5,300 wild elephants congregate around its ancient reservoirs; from the Portuguese-built forts of cinnamon country to the tsunami-ravaged south-east; from the tea plantations of the highlands and the Shangri-la-ish city of Kandy to the desiccated Jaffna Peninsula in the north. He examines Sri Lanka's colonial history (Portuguese, British, Dutch and Arab); the centuries-old strife between Sinhalese and Tamils; and the most recent civil war, which lasted from 1983 to 2009. He describes his encounters with world-class cricketers, terrorists, a former president, ancient tribesmen, British expats, survivors of the civil war massacres, and with the island's amazing flora and fauna, including the world's greatest concentration of leopards. He discovers a place of both extravagant beauty and profound devastation, a place capable of being both heavenly and hellish at the same time, and succeeds in bringing it to vibrant, fascinating life on the page. When not traveling, John Gimlette practices law in London. Visit his website at JohnGimlette.com"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Travel memoirs.
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Adult Nonfiction
915.493 G491e
Core Collection - Adult
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