Images of Sri Lanka through American eyes : travellers in Ceylon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a select anthology / edited by H. A. I. Goonetileke.

Contributor(s):

Goonetileke, H. A. I [ed.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Colombo : U.S. Information Service, [1975?].Description: xxx, 411 p. : plates ; 21 cm. Ts-rx : UnpricedSubject(s):

DDC classification:

23 915.493

Contents:

1813-1850 1. What a field is here for missionary exertions! / Samuel Newell -- 2. By diligence, perseverance, and constant personal intercourse with the natives / Edward Warren, James, Richards, Benjamin C. Meigs and Daniel Poor -- 3. New England fishers of men in Jaffnapatam / Miron and Harriet Winslow -- 4. The brightest spot in the colonial possessions of the British crown / William S.W. Ruschenberger -- 5. An after-dinner promenade with the governor / Fitch W. Taylor 1850-1875 6. Beloved physician / Samuel Fisk Green -- 7. A happy new year in Point de Galle / Townsend Harris -- 8. Your American officers behave much better than the English / Henry Heusken -- 9. The indolent effeminacy of East Indian life / William Maxwell Wood 10. The drive to Colombo is the most delightful it has been my good fortune to take / E. Jackson -- 11. Treading the soil of fragrant Ceylon / William Henry Seward 1875-1900 12. There is no prettier sea-shore in the world, nor a more beautiful surf / Andrew Carnegie -- 13. White champion of the Buddhist faith / Henry Steel Olcott -- 14. The mouldering architecture of a forgotten race / Maturin Murray Ballou -- 15. I think it must be the most beautiful place in the world / Phillips Brooks 16. I shall always think of Ceylon as an Eden / Moncure Daniel Conway -- 17. The enchanted road to Kandy / John Fletcher Hurst -- 18. Colombo is a babel of strange sounds and colours / Mary Thorn Carpenter 19. Central Park in a nook of the mountains / Michael Meyers Shoemaker 20. Dear me, it is beautiful! And most sumptuously tropical / Mark Twain 21. It seemed an echo from remote centuries / John Henry Barrows -- 22. Our crosses are many, our crowns are few / James Martin Peebles 1900-1925 23. I am more and more delighted with this island and its people / Clara Kathleen Rogers 24. A vagabond in "The realms of Gautama" / Henry A. Frank -- 25. The women of Ceylon are often as beautiful as their land / Ella Wheeler Wilcox 26. Snakes in Eden / Victor Heiser 27. Life bears an inextinguishable flame in this land / Achsah Barlow Brewster 28. Man is not vile in this beautiful island, but gentle and patient and good / Margaret Mordecai 1925-1950 29. Beautiful Arabian-nights island of spicy breezes / Francis Parkinson Keyes 30. A magic ointment has touched your eyes / Lucian Swift Kirtland 31. Why, that's the place that Sindbad visited / Eugene Wright 1950-1975 32. Magical mornings on a part-time island / Paul Bowles 33. Milwaukee beer, casserole and peaches on the Mahaweli Ganga / Philip Kingland Crowe 34. Ceylong, like Cleopatra, is infinite variety / William Hull 35. The "magic aura" of Village Ceylon / Yvonne Haneman 36. A beautiful and holy vision / Thomas Merton.

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Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
National Library and Documentation Services Board, Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka Collection		Available	1016640
National Library and Documentation Services Board, Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka Collection		Available	1016843
National Library and Documentation Services Board, Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka Collection		Available	4883
National Library and Documentation Services Board, Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka Collection	915.493	Available	8822
National Library and Documentation Services Board, Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka Collection		Available	3822

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1813-1850

1. What a field is here for missionary exertions! / Samuel Newell --
2. By diligence, perseverance, and constant personal intercourse with the natives / Edward Warren, James, Richards, Benjamin C. Meigs and Daniel Poor --
3. New England fishers of men in Jaffnapatam / Miron and Harriet Winslow --
4. The brightest spot in the colonial possessions of the British crown / William S.W. Ruschenberger --
5. An after-dinner promenade with the governor / Fitch W. Taylor

1850-1875

6. Beloved physician / Samuel Fisk Green --
7. A happy new year in Point de Galle / Townsend Harris --
8. Your American officers behave much better than the English / Henry Heusken --
9. The indolent effeminacy of East Indian life / William Maxwell Wood
10. The drive to Colombo is the most delightful it has been my good fortune to take / E. Jackson --
11. Treading the soil of fragrant Ceylon / William Henry Seward

1875-1900

12. There is no prettier sea-shore in the world, nor a more beautiful surf / Andrew Carnegie --
13. White champion of the Buddhist faith / Henry Steel Olcott --
14. The mouldering architecture of a forgotten race / Maturin Murray Ballou --
15. I think it must be the most beautiful place in the world / Phillips Brooks
16. I shall always think of Ceylon as an Eden / Moncure Daniel Conway --
17. The enchanted road to Kandy / John Fletcher Hurst --
18. Colombo is a babel of strange sounds and colours / Mary Thorn Carpenter
19. Central Park in a nook of the mountains / Michael Meyers Shoemaker
20. Dear me, it is beautiful! And most sumptuously tropical / Mark Twain
21. It seemed an echo from remote centuries / John Henry Barrows --
22. Our crosses are many, our crowns are few / James Martin Peebles

1900-1925

23. I am more and more delighted with this island and its people / Clara Kathleen Rogers
24. A vagabond in "The realms of Gautama" / Henry A. Frank --
25. The women of Ceylon are often as beautiful as their land / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
26. Snakes in Eden / Victor Heiser
27. Life bears an inextinguishable flame in this land / Achsah Barlow Brewster
28. Man is not vile in this beautiful island, but gentle and patient and good / Margaret Mordecai

1925-1950

29. Beautiful Arabian-nights island of spicy breezes / Francis Parkinson Keyes
30. A magic ointment has touched your eyes / Lucian Swift Kirtland
31. Why, that's the place that Sindbad visited / Eugene Wright

1950-1975

32. Magical mornings on a part-time island / Paul Bowles
33. Milwaukee beer, casserole and peaches on the Mahaweli Ganga / Philip Kingland Crowe
34. Ceylong, like Cleopatra, is infinite variety / William Hull
35. The "magic aura" of Village Ceylon / Yvonne Haneman
36. A beautiful and holy vision / Thomas Merton.

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