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The Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka
The Elephant Complex Travels in Sri Lanka Author:John Gimlette No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. — Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones where the island?s 5,800 wild elephants congregate around ancient reservoirs; thro... more »ugh cinnamon country with its Portuguese forts; to the ?Bible Belt? of Buddhism; then up into Kandy, the country?s eccentric, aristocratic Shangri-la. In the course of his journey, Gimlette meets farmers, war heroes, ancient tribesmen, world-class cricketers, terrorists, a former president, old planters, survivors of great massacres?and perhaps some of their perpetrators. That?s to say nothing of the island?s beguiling fauna: elephants, crocodiles, snakes, storks, and the greatest concentration of leopards on Earth. Here is a land of extravagant beauty and profound devastation, a place capable of being at once heavenly and hellish?all brought to vibrant, fascinating life here on the page.« less