Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345806994)

"Brilliant." --The Daily Telegraph

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; through 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, cricketers, terrorists, a former president, 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 beauty and devastation, a place at once heavenly and hellish--all brought to vibrant, fascinating life here on the page.

Author: John Gimlette
ISBN-10: 0345806999
ISBN-13: 9780345806994
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2017
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.30w x 1.30d