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100 1  Gimlette, John,|d1963-|eauthor. 
245 10 Elephant complex :|btravels in Sri Lanka /|cJohn Gimlette.
250    First United States edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2016. 
300    xx, 399 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages  and index. 
505 0  Colombo jumbo -- All quiet among the reservoir giants -- 
       The cinnamon forts -- A state of perpetual vacation -- The
       garden in the sky -- Kandy -- Land of hope and tea -- The 
       wild east -- Trinco, Trinco, little star -- Multi-barrel 
       love enforcer -- The Jaffna Peninsula -- The shoes on the 
       shore -- Green as ever. 
520 2  "From one of our most widely praised travel writers--
       author of Wild Coast and Panther Soup--an eye-opening 
       journey through Sri Lanka that, in the author's inimitable
       mixture of history, observation, and interpretation, 
       reveals the island nation to us as never before. Writing 
       with his signature eye for the unusually telling detail, 
       his sense of urbane wonder, and his investigative desire 
       for the whole story, John Gimlette takes us from Sri 
       Lanka's exuberant capital city of Colombo to the dry 
       interior where more than 5,300 wild elephants congregate 
       around its ancient reservoirs; from the Portuguese-built 
       forts of cinnamon country to the tsunami-ravaged south-
       east; from the tea plantations of the highlands and the 
       Shangri-la-ish city of Kandy to the desiccated Jaffna 
       Peninsula in the north. He examines Sri Lanka's colonial 
       history (Portuguese, British, Dutch and Arab); the 
       centuries-old strife between Sinhalese and Tamils; and the
       most recent civil war, which lasted from 1983 to 2009. He 
       describes his encounters with world-class cricketers, 
       terrorists, a former president, ancient tribesmen, British
       expats, survivors of the civil war massacres, and with the
       island's amazing flora and fauna, including the world's 
       greatest concentration of leopards. He discovers a place 
       of both extravagant beauty and profound devastation, a 
       place capable of being both heavenly and hellish at the 
       same time, and succeeds in bringing it to vibrant, 
       fascinating life on the page"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Gimlette, John,|d1963-|xTravel|zSri Lanka. 
650  0 Historic sites|zSri Lanka. 
650  0 Natural history|zSri Lanka. 
651  0 Sri Lanka|xDescription and travel. 
651  0 Sri Lanka|xSocial life and customs. 
651  0 Sri Lanka|xHistory.