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Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka

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Availability:In StockContributor:John GimletteSeries:Vintage DeparturesPublish date:2017-03-21Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780345806994ISBN-10:345806999UPC:9780345806994Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, AsiaBook Topic:India & South Asia, SoutheastSize:7.80 x 5.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCGQQ25RHW
"Brilliant." --The Daily Telegraph

No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, 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 island's 5,800 wild elephants congregate around ancient reservoirs; through cinnamon country with its Portuguese forts; to the "Bible Belt" of Buddhism; then up into Kandy, the country's eccentric, aristocratic Shangri-la. In the course of his journey, Gimlette meets farmers, war heroes, cricketers, terrorists, a former president, survivors of great massacres--and perhaps some of their perpetrators. That's to say nothing of the island's beguiling fauna: elephants, crocodiles, snakes, storks, and the greatest concentration of leopards on Earth. Here is a land of beauty and devastation, a place at once heavenly and hellish--all brought to vibrant, fascinating life here on the page.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780345806994ISBN-10:345806999UPC:9780345806994Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, AsiaBook Topic:India & South Asia, SoutheastSize:7.80 x 5.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCGQQ25RHW
JOHN GIMLETTE has won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and the Wanderlust Travel Writing Award, and he contributes regularly to The Times (London), The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, and Condé Nast Traveller. When not traveling, he practices law in London.
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