The Real Ceylon PDF Download

Author: C. Brooke Elliott
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120611351
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Author: Hilda Deutrom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789558156230
Category : Cooking, Sri Lankan
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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Author: All Ceylon Young Men's Muslim Association. Conference
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Category : Muslims in Sri Lanka
Languages : en
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Author: Christopher Ondaatje
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780006380146
Category : Leopard
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Autobiographical account of a Sri Lanka born Canadian, woven around his journey through Sri Lanka.

Author: Paul Wirz
Publisher: Brill Archive
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Category : Exorcism
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 1162

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Author: Eugenia W. Herbert
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ISBN: 9781951928025
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Languages : en
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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.

Author: Angela McCarthy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526123398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’ in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country’s economy and shaping the world’s drinking habits, Taylor died in disgrace and remains unknown to the present day in his native Scotland. Using a unique archive of Taylor’s letters written over a forty-year period, Angela McCarthy and Tom Devine provide an unusually detailed reconstruction of a British planter’s life in Asia at the high noon of empire. As well as charting the development of Ceylon’s key commodities in the nineteenth century, the book examines the dark side of planting life including violence and conflict, oppression and despair. A range of other fascinating themes are evocatively examined, including graphic depictions of the Indian Mutiny, ‘race’ and ethnicity, migration, environmental transformation, cross-cultural contact, and emotional ties to home.

Author: Reginald Farrer
Publisher:
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Category : Ceylon
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Author: Nihal Kodituwakku
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789556651690
Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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