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A charmed life in Ceylon

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Author : Tony Buxton
Publisher : Tony Buxton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A charmed life in Ceylon written by Tony Buxton and published by Tony Buxton. This book was released on 2017-09-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author’s fascinating adventures in the early 50’s portray an adventurous lifestyle that most of us dream about, but would be impossible today. Born in Colombo (Sri Lanka) in 1931. He spent his early childhood in England and returned to Ceylon after the war to work the family business founded by his grandfather. Not the typical colonial type, who was expected to segregate himself from the “natives” and join their exclusive clubs. Tony went against the rules and preferred the company of the Ceylonese. This resulted in him making many friends, including well-known politicians. He developed a passion for underwater exploring at a time when the sport was in its infancy and before the event of SCUBA. He gave up his job and a promising career and survived by spear fishing, catching lobsters, aquarium fish and hunting game in the jungles. He set himself up as an underwater guide attracting the wealthy and famous to this new sport. Charging nothing for his services, they repaid him by inviting him to their homes in Europe where he experienced a lavish lifestyle that he hardly knew existed. During these trips, he married three of his four wives; two Scandinavian supermodels and an Italian actress, no doubt intrigued by his glamorous exploits. But none of them could fit into his adventurous lifestyle in Ceylon for long. The powerful Minister of Tourism, a keen diver, himself commissioned him to promote underwater tourism. They became close friends, and he was involved in political intrigues. Even with almost no money, he lived very happily bartering fish, lobsters and game for food and drink. Fluctuating between simple and lavish lifestyles. He was the first person to dive in the nearby Maldive Islands and southern India, where he created a sensation. This is an intriguing read about the not-so-distant past in a unique South-east Asian country – Ceylon- before it slid into political turmoil, isolationism, civil war…and is just now emerging as a stable member of the modernising Asian community of nations.

A Charmed Life

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Author : José María Lacambra Loizu
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 146979294X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book A Charmed Life written by José María Lacambra Loizu and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born of Basque parents in the Philippines during the early Thirties, his schooling was disrupted during WWII, allowing him to wreak havoc with the loathed Japanese Occupation Army. Jac Chambliss, one of his American liberators, was to later be-come his father-in-law. After the war, he moved to his parents' home in Pamplona, Spain, where he ran the bulls during San Fermin. At 17, he went to work for a Shipping Company in Bilbao, served in Africa in an Army outﬁt attached to the Spanish Foreign Legion and subsequently went to Paris to study Humanities at the Sorbonne. He came to the States and attended Gettysburg College, majoring in Physics. During his Sophomore year, he was named Editor in Chief of the College's Literary Magazine. He married Ann Chambliss during his Senior year and graduated with Honors. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from Duke University, where three of his children were born, two to become future physicians and one an accomplished painter. After acquiring his US citizenship, he settled in Orlando Fl., to work for an Aerospace Firm designing missiles and defense systems such as SDI, the Strategic Defense Initiatives program. He retired 30 years later and now travels extensively, indulging in writing, golf, and babysitting for eight lovely grandchildren.

A Charmed Life in Ceylon 1953-1963

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Author : Tony Buxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781370125234
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Charmed Life in Ceylon 1953-1963 written by Tony Buxton and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's fascinating adventures in the early 50's portray an adventurous lifestyle that most of us dream about, but would be impossible today. Born in Colombo (Sri Lanka) in 1931. He spent his early childhood in England and returned to Ceylon after the war to work the family business founded by his grandfather. Not the typical colonial type, who was expected to segregate himself from the "natives" and join their exclusive clubs. Tony went against the rules and preferred the company of the Ceylonese. This resulted in him making many friends, including well-known politicians. He developed a passion for underwater exploring at a time when the sport was in its infancy and before the event of SCUBA. He gave up his job and a promising career and survived by spear fishing, catching lobsters, aquarium fish and hunting game in the jungles. He set himself up as an underwater guide attracting the wealthy and famous to this new sport. Charging nothing for his services, they repaid him by inviting him to their homes in Europe where he experienced a lavish lifestyle that he hardly knew existed. During these trips, he married three of his four wives; two Scandinavian supermodels and an Italian actress, no doubt intrigued by his glamorous exploits. But none of them could fit into his adventurous lifestyle in Ceylon for long. The powerful Minister of Tourism, a keen diver, himself commissioned him to promote underwater tourism. They became close friends, and he was involved in political intrigues. Even with almost no money, he lived very happily bartering fish, lobsters and game for food and drink. Fluctuating between simple and lavish lifestyles. He was the first person to dive in the nearby Maldive Islands and southern India, where he created a sensation. This is an intriguing read about the not-so-distant past in a unique South-east Asian country - Ceylon- before it slid into political turmoil, isolationism, civil war...and is just now emerging as a stable member of the modernising Asian community of nations

Charmed Lives

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Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061847631
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Charmed Lives written by Michael Korda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud drove him to airports; the British film industry kowtowed to his power; the great Hollywood studios fawned at his feet.Sir Alexander Korda, one of the world's most flamboyant movie tycoons, rose from obscurity in rural Hungary to become a legendary filmmaker. With him were his brothers, Zoltan and Vincent, all living charmed lives in circles that included H. G. Wells, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Marlena Dietrich, Vivien Leigh, and Merle Oberon, who was soon to be Alex's wife. But along with Alex's flair for success was an equally powerful impulse for destruction. Now, Vincent's son, Michael Korda, in the first book of his memoirs, recalls the enchanted figures of his childhood...the glory days of the Korda brothers' great films...and then their heartbreaking, tragic end.

Running in the Family

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Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307776646
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Running in the Family written by Michael Ondaatje and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

Gregory Peck

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Author : Lynn Haney
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786737816
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Gregory Peck written by Lynn Haney and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His first screen test was a disaster, his features were large and irregular, his left ear outsized the right, yet he would one day be headlined as the Most Handsome Man in the World. And most of his leading ladies—among them, Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, and Ava Gardner—would not disagree. Irreverent, candid, refreshingly honest, Lynn Haney's carefully researched biography not only charts the remarkable career of the Oscar-winning star but also plumbs Peck's frequently troubling complexity in his off-screen roles as husband, father, lover, and son. About the tough times, Haney minces no words; but the misfortunes by no means eclipse the energy, intensity, and excitement that characterized Peck's five decades of moviemaking. This is a book filled with telling photographs, and a story cast with movie moguls from Louis B. Mayer to Darryl Zanuck, with directors from Hitchcock and Walsh to Huston and Wyler, with nearly every major luminary in Hollywood, and, starring for the first time in toto, Gregory Peck.

Apocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel

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Author : Clint Jones
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476639701
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Apocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel written by Clint Jones and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As awareness of climate change grows, so do the number of cultural depictions of environmental disaster. Graphic novels have reliably produced dramatizations of such disasters. Many use themes of dystopian hopefulness, or the enjoyment readers experience from seeing society prevail in times of apocalypse. This book argues that these generally inspirational narratives contribute to a societal apathy for real-life environmental degradation. By examining the narratives and art of the environmental apocalypse in contemporary graphic novels, the author stands against dystopian hope, arguing that the ways in which we experience depictions of apocalypse shape how we respond to real crises.

Youth and Empire

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Author : David M. Pomfret
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804796866
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Youth and Empire written by David M. Pomfret and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of its kind to provide such a broadly comparative and in-depth analysis of children and empire. Youth and Empire brings to light new research and new interpretations on two relatively neglected fields of study: the history of imperialism in East and South East Asia and, more pointedly, the influence of childhood—and children's voices—on modern empires. By utilizing a diverse range of unpublished source materials drawn from three different continents, David M. Pomfret examines the emergence of children and childhood as a central historical force in the global history of empire in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book is unusual in its scope, extending across the two empires of Britain and France and to points of intense impact in "tropical" places where indigenous, immigrant, and foreign cultures mixed: Hong Kong, Singapore, Saigon, and Hanoi. It thereby shows how childhood was crucial to definitions of race, and thus European authority, in these parts of the world. By examining the various contradictory and overlapping meanings of childhood in colonial Asia, Pomfret is able to provide new and often surprising readings of a set of problems that continue to trouble our contemporary world.

Chronology of Women Worldwide

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Author : Lynne Brakeman
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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The History of the Suffolk Regiment, 1914-1927

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Author : Charles Cecil Rowe Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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The Eclectic Magazine

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Author : John Holmes Agnew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (471 download)

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The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series)

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Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1799 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series) written by Ernest Bramah and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 1799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah's detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood and his humorous works with Jerome K Jerome. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, The Secret of the League, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Table of Contents: Max Carrados Series The Coin of Dionysius The Knight's Cross Signal Problem The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite The Last Exploit Of Harry the Actor The Tilling Shaw Mystery The Comedy at Fountain Cottage The Game Played In the Dark The Virginiola Fraud The Disappearance of Marie Severe The Secret of Dunstan's Tower The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms The Ghost at Massingham Mansions The Missing Actress Sensation The Ingenious Mr. Spinola The Kingsmouth Spy Case The Eastern Mystery The Secret of Headlam Height The Mystery of the Vanished Petition Crown The Holloway Flat Tragedy The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes The Ingenious Mind of Mr. Rigby Lacksome The Crime at the House in Culver Street The Strange Case of Cyril Bycourt The Missing Witness Sensation The Bravo of London: A Novel Kai Lung Series The Transmutation of Ling The Story of Yung Chang The Probation of Sen Heng The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung The Confession of Kai Lung The Vengeance of Tung Fel The Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-Tong The Vision of Yin, the Son of Yat Huang The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-Maker Kai Lung's Golden Hours Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat Other Novels The Mirror of Kong Ho The Secret of the League

The Adventures of of Max Carrados

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Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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A Comprehensive History of India

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Author : Henry Beveridge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375030533
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book A Comprehensive History of India written by Henry Beveridge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

All the Year Round

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Mission Gleaner

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Author : H.N. Cobb
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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