Description: Elephant Complex : Travels in Sri Lanka, Paperback by Gimlette, John, ISBN 0345806999, ISBN-13 9780345806994, Brand New, Free shipping in the US “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.
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Book Title: Elephant Complex : Travels in Sri Lanka
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: Asia / Southeast Asia, Natural History, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, Essays & Travelogues, Asia / India & South Asia, Customs & Traditions, Asia / Southeast
Genre: Travel, Social Science, Science, History
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: John Gimlette
Item Width: 5.2 in
Book Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
