The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975 - 217 էջ The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time" (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs. |
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... Jaffna ; youth and the lovely friendly Kandyan villages and villagers up in the mountains ; youth and the vast lone and level plain of the low country in Hambantota , the unending jungle which tempered in me the love of silence and ...
... Jaffna ; youth and the lovely friendly Kandyan villages and villagers up in the mountains ; youth and the vast lone and level plain of the low country in Hambantota , the unending jungle which tempered in me the love of silence and ...
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... Jaffna kachcheri was written by the officer who at the end of the eighteenth century victoriously entered Jaffna after Britain had seized Ceylon from the Dutch in 1795. For the historian of imperialism these diaries give an extra ...
... Jaffna kachcheri was written by the officer who at the end of the eighteenth century victoriously entered Jaffna after Britain had seized Ceylon from the Dutch in 1795. For the historian of imperialism these diaries give an extra ...
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... Jaffna , I had deliberately struck a Tamil lawyer in the face with my riding - whip was resurrected . On the other hand Mr Fernando and other people wrote defending me . I must return for a moment , before ending this volume ...
... Jaffna , I had deliberately struck a Tamil lawyer in the face with my riding - whip was resurrected . On the other hand Mr Fernando and other people wrote defending me . I must return for a moment , before ending this volume ...
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