Stanfords Adult Book of the Month August 2016Sri Lanka is a small island with a long, violent and enthralling history. Home to thousands of wild elephants, this is a place where natural beauty has endured, indifferent to human tragedy. Journeying through its regions - some haunted by war, many rarely seen by our eyes - award-winning travel...Read more
A gripping account of an under-reported island' Spectator, Book of the Year '[A] brilliant new book about an island that has a geography from heaven and a history from hell' Daily Telegraph'A brilliant work of travel, history and psychological insight . . . astute and sympathetic . . . very funny' Wall Street Journal Everyone has wanted a piece...Read more
A gripping account of an under-reported island' Spectator, Book of the Year '[A] brilliant new book about an island that has a geography from heaven and a history from hell' Daily Telegraph'A brilliant work of travel, history and psychological insight . . . astute and sympathetic . . . very funny' Wall Street Journal Everyone has wanted a piece...Read more
KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Geography and Travel gives you the extremes of the world-longest, deepest, tallest, most populous-and the best places to visit. Among the interesting facts, you'll find all the national capitals, and state nicknames and capitals. Whether you're a student, game show contestant, or curious traveler, you'll find the...Read more
KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Geography and Travel gives you the extremes of the world-longest, deepest, tallest, most populous-and the best places to visit. Among the interesting facts, you'll find all the national capitals, and state nicknames and capitals. Whether you're a student, game show contestant, or curious traveler, you'll find the...Read more
The island of Sri Lanka conjures up images of tea plantations, white-sand beaches backed by coconut palms and statues of reclining Buddhas. Whilst the pearl-shaped isle does offer all these things, the real Sri Lanka is much richer: Footprint's 6th edition Sri Lanka Handbook will help you travel beyond the tourist trail, from Kandy's Temple of...Read more
The island of Sri Lanka conjures up images of tea plantations, white-sand beaches backed by coconut palms and statues of reclining Buddhas. Whilst the pearl-shaped isle does offer all these things, the real Sri Lanka is much richer: Footprint's 6th edition Sri Lanka Handbook will help you travel beyond the tourist trail, from Kandy's Temple of...Read more
2017 marked the 150th Anniversary of Ceylon tea! In celebration, this stunning pictorial book was published about Ceylon tea and the beautiful, tropical, island country of Sri Lanka. Text and photography by Gail Gastelu, publisher of The Tea House Times magazine. From the tropical beaches, to stunning high mountain views of tea plantations at...Read more
2017 marked the 150th Anniversary of Ceylon tea! In celebration, this stunning pictorial book was published about Ceylon tea and the beautiful, tropical, island country of Sri Lanka. Text and photography by Gail Gastelu, publisher of The Tea House Times magazine. From the tropical beaches, to stunning high mountain views of tea plantations at...Read more
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Sri Lanka is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Follow in the footsteps of Buddha and modern-day pilgrims to the summit of Adam's Peak, wander the crumbling ruins and lost cities of the...Read more
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Sri Lanka is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Follow in the footsteps of Buddha and modern-day pilgrims to the summit of Adam's Peak, wander the crumbling ruins and lost cities of the...Read more
SRI LANKAREISBESTEMMINGEN De Nelles Gids Sri Lanka vertelt u niet alleen wanneer het de beste tijd is om te bodysurfen in Arugam Bay of de 'wolkenmeisjes' van Sigiriya te aanschouwen, maar beschrijft ook de stranden van Hikkaduwa en Negombo, de pelgrimsroutes naar de heilige berg Adam's Peak, de paden in het Sinharaja Forest en de prachtige...Read more
SRI LANKAREISBESTEMMINGEN De Nelles Gids Sri Lanka vertelt u niet alleen wanneer het de beste tijd is om te bodysurfen in Arugam Bay of de 'wolkenmeisjes' van Sigiriya te aanschouwen, maar beschrijft ook de stranden van Hikkaduwa en Negombo, de pelgrimsroutes naar de heilige berg Adam's Peak, de paden in het Sinharaja Forest en de prachtige...Read more
Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70 per cent of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European...Read more
Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70 per cent of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European...Read more