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Since the early fourteenth century, travelers have journeyed to the resplendent island of Sri Lankaonce known as Ceylonbelieving it to be just short of paradise. In 2001, centuries after the arrivals and departures of Dutch admirals, Portuguese soldiers, Arab traders, and British tea planters, Adele Barker and her son Noah came from Tucson, Arizona, to the island. Settling into its verdant central highlands, they would spend the next year immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of Sri Lankaits elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. They would also encounter there a world infused with the religious traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and missionary Christianityand with the troubled history of sectarian violence that had culminated in a twenty-five-year civil war. Combining the immediacy of memoir and the vividness of travelogue with the insight of the best reportage, __Not Quite Paradise__ chronicles life on the island in all its complexity. Barker conveys the quality of everyday experienceat once lyrical and profoundly discordant. A professor at the
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- Author
- Adele Marie Barker; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807000618
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Travel Essays & Descriptions
- Rating
- 3.16 / 5 (68 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
