A
fitting tribute to Sri Lanka's most prominent architect.
An Invisible
Spectator
by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno
Biography
of Paul Bowles, a former owner of Taprobane Island.
Woolf
in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard
Woolf, 1904-1911
by Christopher Ondaatje
The View
from Serendip
by Arthur C.Clarke
Accounts
by Arthur C.Clarke of some of his experiences in the country
in which he is its most famous living foreigner.
The Reefs
of Taprobane
by Arthur C.Clarke
‘Clarke’s
descriptions of his diving experiences in Ceylon and his
non diving experiences in the ancient cities, jungles
and monasteries of what became his adopted country and
in which he could escape “from the tyranny of the
typewriter”.
The Man-Eater
of Punanai: A Journey of Discovery to the Jungles of Old
Ceylon
by Christopher Ondaatje
Autobiographical
account of his journeys around Sri Lanka with his father
in the 1940’s but set as a trip to Punanai where
a man eating tiger lived in the 1920’s.
The Rifle
and Hound in Ceylon
by Sir Samuel W.Baker
The Nuwara
Eliya founder's experience of hunting,shooting and fishing
in Ceylon.
Images
of Sri Lanka through American Eyes by H.A.I.Goonetileke
A selected
anthology of American writers' reflections on 19th and
20th century Ceylon.
Great
Days: Memoirs of a Ceylon Government Medical Officer of
1918
by P.R.C. Peterson
Memoirs
of a Burgher doctor from a lost generation which captures
the unconscious multi-ethnic nature of Ceylon which is
lacking in modern day Sri Lanka.
