Author: Henry MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Ceylon
Author: Henry MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Golden Tips
Author: Henry William CavePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Serendib
Author: Eugenia W. HerbertPublisher:
ISBN: 9781951928025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Since antiquity Ceylon?--?long known as Serendib, now Sri Lanka?--?has been renowned for its beauty and its wealth. Shipwrecked on its shores, Sindbad the Sailor found it a land of "unrivalled splendor and magnificence," the air filled with the fragrance of spices and rare gems glittering in the streams of a lofty mountain. He returned home loaded with riches, as many were to do after him: Portuguese, Dutch, and finally, in the nineteenth century, the British. Serendib tells the stories in the voices and through the eyes of those who ultimately made and lost fortunes not in the cinnamon and pearls that first lured them but in coffee and tea; it tells the stories, too, of those who came to govern, to convert, to hunt, to unearth the island's antiquities, and simply to delight in its natural wonders.
A Description of Ceylon, Containing an Account of the Country, Inhabitants, and Natural Productions;
Author: James CordinerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cingalese
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
An Account of the Interior of Ceylon, and of Its Inhabitants
Author: John DavySouthern India, Its History, People, Commerce, and Industrial Resources
Author: Somerset PlaynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV
Author: A. M. PhilalethesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110804655X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
This 1817 book traces the history of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the classical period to 1815.
History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Year 1815
Author: PhilalethesPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120617889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Principal Object Of The Book Was To Acquant The Reader With The Civil And Military Transaction, The Religion And Manners Of The People. Also Gives A Brief Sketch Of The Natural History Of The Country.
Metallic Modern
Author: Nira WickramasinghePublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782382437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines – in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. The ‘metallic modern’ of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception of urban space in Colombo. Metallic Modern describes the modern as it was lived and experienced by non-elite groups – tailors, seamstresses, shopkeepers, workers – and suggests that their idea of the modern was nurtured by a changing material world.
Short History of Ceylon
Author: H. W. CodringtonPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120609464
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description