Author: Nihal KodituwakkuPublisher:
ISBN: 9789556651690
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Magical Times in Ceylon/Sri Lanka
Author: Nihal KodituwakkuPublisher:
ISBN: 9789556651690
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Early Prints of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1800-1900
Author: Rajpal Kumar De SilvaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Woolf in Ceylon
Author: Christopher OndaatjePublisher:
ISBN: 9781590482223
Category : Civil service, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Leonard Woolf was born in London in 1880 and spent five years at Trinity College, Cambridge where he began lasting friendships with men such as Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster and John Maynard Keynes. In 1904 Woolf applied to join the home civil service but failed the exam. Instead, he was sent to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as a cadet in the Ceylon civil service, joining the small group of white administrators who ruled the colony. He remained there for nearly seven years. In Woolf in Ceylon Christopher Ondaatje, who was himself born and brought up on the island, follows in the footsteps of Woolf. Drawing on his personal experience of Ceylon and empire, he compares the way of life during imperial days with that of the post-colonial era. We learn as much about the country, its people and their transformation of the country during the past century as we do about the man who used his colonial career to become one of the leading English men of letters of the twentieth century. Ondaatje s sensitive descriptions, illustrated with period and modern photographs, tell the compelling story of Woolf s sojourn in Ceylon and his developing disillusionment with the British colonial system. The result is a unique evocation of both a vanished imperial world and a colonial servant s enduring legacy in the contemporary culture of an enchanted but troubled island.
Round the Tea Totum
Author: David L. EbbelsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781425921743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This is the personal story of six years spent as an assistant manager on tea plantations in the beautiful and historic island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. The European tea planter is now a figure of history and his way of life has long vanished. This book describes a planter's daily life, the events experienced and the post-colonial social scene with humour as well as candour. Historical and literary aspects are included where these are relevant to the story and the wonderful natural history of the Island is brought to attention by a keen naturalist.
Ancient Ceylon
Author: Henry ParkerPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120602083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
An account of the aborigines and of part of the early civilization in Sri Lanka.
A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon: Ranunculaceæ-Anacardiaceæ. With plates I-XXV
Author: Henry TrimenGlimpses of Ceylon's Past
Author: Senarat ParanavitanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Ceylon Blue Book
Author: Ceylon Daily News Cookery Book
Author: Hilda DeutromPublisher:
ISBN: 9789558156230
Category : Cooking, Sri Lankan
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Banishment and Belonging
Author: Ronit RicciPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A ground-breaking exploration of exile and diaspora as they relate to place, language, religious tradition, literature and the imagination.