Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka (Vintage Departures)

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Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka (Vintage Departures)

â€œBrilliant.â€ â€”The Daily Telegraph
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No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. InÂ Elephant Complex,Â he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones where the islandâ€™s 5,800 wild elephants congregate around ancient reservoirs; through cinnamon country with its Portuguese forts; to the â€œBible Beltâ€ of Buddhism; then up into Kandy, the countryâ€™s eccentric, aristocratic Shangri-la.Â In the course of his journey, Gimlette meets farmers, war heroes, cricketers, terrorists, a former president, survivors of great massacresâ€”and perhaps some of their perpetrators. Thatâ€™s to say nothing of the islandâ€™s beguiling fauna: elephants, crocodiles, snakes, storks, and the greatest concentration of leopards on Earth.Â Here is a land of beauty and devastation, a place at once heavenly and hellishâ€”all brought to vibrant, fascinating life here on the page.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0345806999_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2017-03-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345806994

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0345806999_used
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2017-03-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345806994

Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka (Vintage Departures)

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