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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gimlette, John, 1963- author.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gimlette, John, 1963- author.       by title:      Elephant complex : t...         MARC Display

Elephant complex : travels in Sri Lanka / John Gimlette. by Gimlette, John, 1963- author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. 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 (hardback) : 0385351275 (hardback) Description:  xx, 399 pages : maps ; 25 cm. Edition:  First edition. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "From one of our most widely praised travel writers--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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 915.49304 Gi Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 915.49304 Gimlett Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 915.49304 Gi Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 915.49304 Gi Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 915.49304 Gi Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 915.49304 Gi Checked out 05/28/2024 Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 915.49304 Gi Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waialua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 915.49304 Gi Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 915.49304 Gi Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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