A Visit to Ceylon
| Author | : Ernst Haeckel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 1883 |
| Genre | : Natural history |
| ISBN | : |
A Visit To Ceylon
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A Visit to Ceylon
| Author | : Ernst Haeckel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 1883 |
| Genre | : Natural history |
| ISBN | : |
The Duke of Edinburgh in Ceylon
| Author | : John Capper |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 1999-01-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1421273799 |
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Provost & Co. in London, 1871. This book contains color illustrations.
The Dutch in Ceylon
| Author | : Richard Gerald Anthonisz |
| Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9788120618459 |
The book, in the words of the author, is his attempt to fulfill a long felt want of a complete, yet concise, account of the Dutch occupation of Ceylon 1640 to 1796. It is essentially a history of the Dutch people who came to the island, among which are included Joris van Spilbergan, Sebald de Weerd, Coster, Boreel, Francois Caron Maatzuyketo, Thysz, Kittensteyn, Van der Meiden, Hulft, etc. Through out the book valuable information is given about the political conditions and about the Dutch interactions with the Singhalese. Details of treaties and skirmishes are provided. The Dutch engagements with the Portuguese are also noticed. The book has a map of Ceylon and 12 other illustrations that portray key fingers and events.The book is a reprint of the 1929 edition.
Literature of Travel and Exploration
| Author | : Jennifer Speake |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1425 |
| Release | : 2014-05-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1135456631 |
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
The Teardrop Island
| Author | : Cherry Briggs |
| Publisher | : Summersdale |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2013-06-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 085765926X |
The Teardrop Island follows in the footsteps of the eccentric Victorian James Emerson Tennent, along a route which takes Cherry to pilgrimage trails, tea estates, and rural regions inhabited by indigenous tribes, and through areas of the former warzone, delving under the surface of the contemporary culture via cricket matches and fortune tellers.
Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index
| Author | : Jennifer Speake |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 566 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781579584405 |
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
