The Ruined Cities of Ceylon
Author : Henry William Cave
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Buddhism
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Author : Henry William Cave
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Buddhism
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Author : William Skeen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3846049646
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
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Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Nuwara Eliya (Sri Lanka)
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Page : 688 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1914
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Author : M. D. Dassanayake
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789054102700
This book provides an accessible taxonomic base for acanthaceae; rubiaceae; and sapindaceae of Sri Lankan vegetation. It forms a significant part of the vascular flora of the island.
Author : Monika Shaffer-Fehre
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2006-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1482280418
Although ferns were not included in Trimen?s original five-volume ?A Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon?, they form a significant part of the vascular flora of the island. A good deal of fern research was carried out contemporaneously to, but independently of Trimen?s work. Publications, though, were widely scattered throughout the literature or const
Author : Frank Dawson Adams
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Cenosite
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Author : Arup K. Chatterjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1003859127
Adam’s Bridge offers the first comprehensive transdisciplinary study of the famous eponymous tombolo (also known as Ram Setu) combining its sacral, historical, geological, political, performative, and heritage aspects into one framework, viewed under the critical lenses of island studies and cultural theory. The book elucidates the entanglement of Adam’s Bridge’s discursive history with India’s colonial history, contemporary geology, domestic politics, and the nation’s emerging position in a complex geopolitical order in and around the Indian Ocean region, vis-à-vis increasing Sino-American involvement in Indo-Sri Lankan relations. Without foregrounding any absolute scientific claims on the location of the sandbars that inspired sage Valmiki’s Ram Setu and the Ramayan legacy or hindering narratives of religious faiths and folklore revolving around the structure, this intellectual historiography traces the parallel evolution of traditions of compassionate questioning and devotion for Indic sacred beliefs among commentators across the millennia from both Indian and non-Indian spectra, seen in juxtaposition with the biotic and abiotic diversity of the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay. Looking beyond secular-versus-religious debates, this book will be of interest to scholars of ocean and island studies, coastal economies, archipelagic geographies, environmental history, heritage studies, colonial studies, and cultural theory. Adam’s Bridge unifies a consortium of themes, ranging across ecological and livelihood sustainability, environmentalism, soteriology, economic and geostrategic history, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, in conceptualizing a compellingly nuanced chronicle for India’s enchanted ‘bridge.’
Author : Heather Burt
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2007-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1554884896
On a stifling August day, six-year-old Clare Fraser and seven-year-old Rudy Vantwest make eye contact from opposite sides of their street. For an instant they are connected, then each turns away — Clare to the shelter of the garden sprinkler, Rudy to the excitement of his brother's impending birth. Twenty-five years later, Clare and Rudy, strangers living continents apart, fixtures of each other’s memories and imaginations, are connected again. Overturning the guarded, insular lives they both lead, two events — one an accident, the other an act of terror — transform them both and bind the Vantwest and Fraser families irrevocably. Adam's Peak weaves back and forth between a Montreal suburb and a Colombo private school, between a Ceylon tea estate at the end of the Second World War and a small Scottish town in the early 1960s, its characters struggling desperately to come to terms with themselves and with their powerful connections to the people and places they have tried to escape.
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Publisher : Rough Guides UK
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1409362582
The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka is the most comprehensive and user-friendly travellers' guide to this fascinating country. Each chapter of the Rough Guide includes thoroughly researched travel information, hotel and restaurant listings, sections on everything from food and language to media and sport, and thoughtful background on the environment, politics, culture, music and history. The new stunning full-colour design combines glorious images to whet your appetite with a practical layout and dozens of accessible and accurate maps to guide you from the urban centres to the jungle, beaches and mountains. This is the time to discover Sri Lanka - the Rough Guide is your perfect companion. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka. Now available in ePub format.