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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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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 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.
