Orang Rejimen:... The Malays of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment... by... BA Hussainmiya... New. Not many people in either the Malay archipelago or in Sri Lanka know much about the Malay community in Sri Lanka except that they produce food from roadside stalls which is popular with all communities there. Hussainmiya...
The West in Asia 1850-1914... by... Michael Edwardes... The really active time for Government inspired Western imperialism in Asia was relatively short, less than a century. Before that the bucaneers and tradesmen, often unwittingly, laid the foundations for something bigger to come. World War I showed the West had...
Orang Rejimen:... The Malays of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment... by... BA Hussainmiya... New. Not many people in either the Malay archipelago or in Sri Lanka know much about the Malay community in Sri Lanka except that they produce food from roadside stalls which is popular with all communities there. Hussainmiya...
Only Man is Vile:... The Tragedy of Sri Lanka... - -... \William McGowan... Although this book is generally unavailable in Sri Lanka, it is essential reading for anyone wanting to get to know the country. Although it was written at the height of the Sri Lankan civil war which ended in 2009...
Search for Nirvana... -... Robin Maugham... Somerset Maugham's nephew, Robin, a successful travel writer, describes in this book his search for, as he says in his Preface, "a place of contentment in which one intends to live until one dies." The book, written when Maugham was 60 ends up as...