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Not quite paradise : an American sojourn in Sri Lanka / Adele Barker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker, Adele Marie, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barker, Adele Marie, 1946---Travel--Sri Lanka.
- Barker, Adele Marie.
- Barker, Adele Marie, 1946-.
- Teachers.
- War and society.
- Travel.
- Sri Lanka--Description and travel.
- Sri Lanka.
- Sri Lanka--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic conflict--Sri Lanka.
- Ethnic conflict.
- War and society--Sri Lanka.
- Sri Lanka--History--Civil War, 1983-2009.
- History.
- Tsunamis--Sri Lanka.
- Tsunamis.
- Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004.
- Teachers--Sri Lanka--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Part I
- Chapter 1 Going and Coming I 3
- Chapter 2 Student Life 9
- Chapter 3 Housekeeping 15
- Chapter 4 Insurrections in the Hills 33
- Chapter 5 Hot Curry 51
- Chapter 6 Rain 57
- Chapter 7 The War Next Door 71
- Chapter 8 Colombo 93
- Chapter 9 Colonialist Torpor 103
- Chapter 10 Life in a Different Key 125
- Chapter 11 Gihin Ennam 135
- Part II
- Chapter 12 When the Sea Came to the Land 147
- Chapter 13 Home 163
- Chapter 14 Up and Down the Mountain 173
- Chapter 15 The Story of a Wave 181
- Chapter 16 Early Warning System 197
- Chapter 17 Arugam Bay 207
- Chapter 18 Batti 217
- Chapter 19 The Road to Jaffna 231
- Chapter 20 In Jaffna 245
- Chapter 21 Reading the Classics 263
- Chapter 22 Leaving Jaffna 273
- Chapter 23 Going and Coming II 285.
- ISBN:
- 9780807000618
- 0807000612
- OCLC:
- 317623411
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