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Discovering Ceylon
0රු700In this book, the author unfolds with freshness and intimacy a whole panorama of the hinteriand of Ceylon which he has romed for a lifetime with Theodolite and tape and seeting eye.
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Far-off Things
0රු650The history, Legends, peoples including the vedda aborigines, jungle lore and adventure of Ceylon
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Seeing Ceylon
0රු800This book is the product of over forty years of travel, on the highways, and along byways of Ceylon, in association with “the theodolite and the tape”. It consists largely of legends and traditions which have come down by word of mouth from one generation on the other. They therefore defy close analysis of observation, but are unsciously held by a simple, conservative people to be true.
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Vanished Trails
0රු680The other important event was publication of the Russian language translation of Martin Wickramasinghe’s novel “Gamperaliya”. What struk me was the close kinship of “Gamperaliya” in its theme, subject, high novelisticqualities and creative power to di Lampedusa’s novel, the first Italian edition of which was published in 1958, fourteen years after the publication of the first Sinhala edition of Martin Wickramasinghe’s “Gamperaliya”.
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Wher The White Sambhur Roams
0රු600This is story about Hans van der Meer, a Dutch boy, who at fourteen is shipwrecked on the island of Ceylon, and whose remarkable gift for making friends with wild animals leads him into captivity at the Court of the king of Kandy. It was a time when Dutch were battling for supremacy over Portuguese, and when the Veddas, the aboriginal tribesmen, lived there own life in the dense jungle much as they do today.
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Wild Ceylon – R L Spittel
0රු650There is incident and excitement in this story of adventure, but outstanding are the vivid descriptions of bird, animal and aboriginal life as it was lived under the savage law of the jungle: an attack by an infuriated mother bear with cubs, the trapping of an elusive leopard, a battle to the death between python and crocodile.
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Wild White Boy
0රු500This is story about Hans van der Meer, a Dutch boy, who at fourteen is shipwrecked on the island of Ceylon, and whose remarkable gift for making friends with wild animals leads him into captivity at the Court of the king of Kandy. It was a time when Dutch were battling for supremacy over Portuguese, and when the Veddas, the aboriginal tribesmen, lived there own life in the dense jungle much as they do today.
