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1 online resource (303 pages) : map |
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Going and coming I -- Student life -- Housekeeping -- Insurrections in the hills -- Hot curry -- Rain -- The war next door -- Colombo -- Colonialist torpor -- Life in a different key -- Gihin Ennam -- When the sea came to the land -- Home -- Up and down the mountain -- The story of a wave -- Early warning system -- Arugam Bay -- Batti -- The road to Jaffna -- In jaffna -- Reading the classics -- Leaving Jaffna -- Going and coming II |
| Summary |
A chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportage Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an eighteen-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island'its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. They hear stories of the island's colorful past and its twenty-five-year civil war between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil Tigers. When, having returned home to Tucson, Barker awakes on December 26, 2004, to see televised images of the island's southern shore disappearing into the ocean, she decides she must go back. Traveling from the southernmost coasts to the farthest outposts of the Tamil north, she witnesses the ravages of the tsunami that killed forty-eight thousand Sri Lankans in the space of twenty minutes, and reports from the ground on the triumphs and failures of relief efforts. Combining the immediacy of memoir and the vividness of travelogue with the insight of the best reportage, Not Quite Paradise chronicles life in a place few have ever visited. From the Trade Paperback edition |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Barker, Adele Marie, 1946- -- Travel -- Sri Lanka
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| SUBJECT |
Barker, Adele Marie, 1946- fast |
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Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka
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War and society -- Sri Lanka
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Tsunamis -- Sri Lanka
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Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004.
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Teachers -- Sri Lanka -- Biography
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HISTORY.
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Ethnic conflict
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Ethnic relations
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Teachers
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Travel
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Tsunamis
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War and society
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Sri Lanka -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000018
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Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations
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Sri Lanka -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2009.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004003192
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Indian Ocean
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Sri Lanka
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009013015 |
| ISBN |
9780807000625 |
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0807000620 |
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129956240X |
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9781299562400 |
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