Download or read book A Romance of Ceylon written by Ernest Octavius Walker and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romantic Ceylon written by Ralph Henry Bassett and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its History, Legend And Story. Drawings By Kathleen Murdoch And E J Laws.
Download or read book The Jam Fruit Tree written by Carl Muller and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gratiean Memorial Prize for the best work in English Literature by a Sri Lankan for 1993 Hilarious, affectionate, candid and moving, this is the story of the Burghers of Sri Lanka... Who are the Burghers? Descended from the Dutch, the Portuguese, the British and other foreigners who arrived in the island-nation of Sri Lanka (and 'mingled' with the local inhabitants), the Burghers often stand out because of their curiously mixed features—grey eyes in an otherwise Dravid face, for instance.... A handsome and guileless people, the Burghers have always lived it up, forever willing to 'put a party'. Carl Muller, a Burgher himself, writes in this quasi-fictional, engaging biography of the lives of his people; they emerge, at the end of his story, as a race of fun-loving, hardy people, much like the jam fruit tree which simply refuses to be contained or destroyed.
Download or read book Ryan and Ceylon a Deceitful Love Story written by Neyrey and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryan Moreau, is an ambitious law student from South Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She grew up in her over crowded family home with her crazy Granny G. Ryan becomes a statistic after giving birth to her son Aasen at only sixteen years old. She takes the path she made in stride, breaking stereotypes of the path everyone predicts she'll take. With support from her loved one's and her best friend Ceylon, Ryan is shaking up her path. Ceylon Gautier is a gang banger turned business man after his school gives a test created by Mensa. Once Ceylon's IQ is discovered his life takes on a new meaning. He develops software programs and even has his own technology line. Making him a twenty-four year old African American billionaire. But all though he's taken out of his unfortunate situation he remains true to the game while trying to balance the two lifestyles and keep them completely separated. Ceylon and Ryan are forced to take two different paths as Ryan's life is constantly trying to pull her into the hood while Ceylon's life is soaring in a different direction. What started off as a platonic friendship, turns them into enemies of every love interest the other brings around. Will the lies that have helped them maintain their friendship and lifestyles break them apart once all is brought to the light?
Download or read book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1681 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Knox was travelling with his father in 1659 on the latter's journey homeward from his post with the British East India Company at Fort St. George when a storm obliged their ship to put into Cottier Bay, Ceylon. The two were detained as prisoners along with 14 others, and carried into the interior of the island. Knox's father died in 1661, but Knox himself remained a prisoner at large for over 19 years, supporting himself by knitting caps, lending out corn and rice, and hawking goods about the country. Though the rajah pressed him to enter his service, Knox resisted, and finally escaped to the Dutch settlement at Arippu on the north-west of the island. Reaching England in 1680, he entrusted the manuscript of this account to Robert Hooke, and enlisted in the East India Company, for further adventures in an already adventuresome life. These engravings include depictions of agricultural techniques, two native primates, customs and costumes and an execution being carried out by an elephant.
Download or read book Metallic Modern written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines – in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway, bicycle and varieties of industrial equipment. The ‘metallic modern’ of the 19th and early 20th century Ceylon encompassed multiple worlds of belonging and imagination; and enabled diverse conceptions of time to coexist through encounters with Siam, the United States and Japan as well as a new conception of urban space in Colombo. Metallic Modern describes the modern as it was lived and experienced by non-elite groups – tailors, seamstresses, shopkeepers, workers – and suggests that their idea of the modern was nurtured by a changing material world.
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Standard Reading Club in Conjunction with the Booklovers Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Descriptive Catalogue of Books Contained in the Lending Library written by Bishopsgate Institute, London and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mehera Meher A Divine Romance written by David Fenster and published by Meher Nazar Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mehera-Meher is the story of an intimate, Divine Romance between the Beloved and his closest disciple. The three-volume paperback set draws deeply from Mehera's firsthand narrative gathered from over 200 hours of tape recordings made by the author, David Fenster, from the years 1974 to 1982. To this he painstakingly researched and added other historical material from Mehera and those close to her to create an epic, 1785-page biography of Avatar Meher Baba's foremost woman disciple. This is the latest, revised edition, and contains numerous corrections and additions to previous editions.
Download or read book Cinnamon Gardens written by Shyam Selvadurai and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1920s’ Ceylon, during the turbulent closing days of colonial rule, this evocative story of intertwined lives takes us behind the fragrant gardens and polished surfaces of the elite who reside in a wealthy suburb of Colombo to reveal a world of splintered families, conflicted passions, and lives destroyed by class hatred. Annalukshmi, a spirited young schoolteacher, finds herself caught between her family’s pressures to marry and her own desire for a more independent life. Then there is her uncle Balendran, whose comfortable life of privilege is rocked by the arrival of Richard, a lover from his past. Their uneasy reunion re-ignites tensions with Balendran’s powerful father, and threatens all on which Balendran has built his present life. Sensual, perceptive, and wise, Cinnamon Gardens is a novel of exceptional achievement—an exquisite tapestry of lives.
Download or read book A Visit to Ceylon written by Ernst Haeckel and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Truth written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hindustan Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Academy and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My One and Only Love written by Melanie Schuster and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking solace on St. Simon's Island to pick of the pieces of her life, singer Ceylon Simmons discovers that the man she has secretly loved for years, lawyer Martin Deveraux, who is recovering from a tragic accident, is also on the island, and together they learn to heal and open their hearts to love. Original.
Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
