John Gimlette

Indeholder "Illustrations and Maps", "Acknowledgements", "Glossary", "Introduction", "Prologue", "Act I. St John's", "Act II. Planting Avalon (and reaping the storm)", "Act III. North with the Floaters", "Act IV. Down Labrador", "ACT V. Back via Old New France", "Act VI. Baby Bonus", "Epilogue", "Afterword", "Further Reading".

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Being an Australian my interactions with Sri Lanka have been through cricket, Sinhalese university friends, hearing about the Civil War and what Arthur C. Clarke may have been doing with young boys. Thanks to Elephant Complex, I now know far, far more about the country, its history and its customs and far, far more than I really needed to know about one of the most vicious cil wars imaginable and what many western men were doing with young boys.

Gimlette can write lyrically and evocatively and I often stopped reading to admire a turn of phrase. His connections to the great and the good of Sri Lankan society gave him access to many places barred to the hoi polloi so we get guided tours of Civil War era torture chambers and the like. In all, a fascinating, if not deeply unsettling read, even if Gimlette's distaste of cricket was baffling.… (altro)