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Author : Robert Knox
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Download or read book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Knox
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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Account of the Captivity of Capt. Robert Knox written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Knox
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Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1681 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Knox was travelling with his father in 1659 on the latter's journey homeward from his post with the British East India Company at Fort St. George when a storm obliged their ship to put into Cottier Bay, Ceylon. The two were detained as prisoners along with 14 others, and carried into the interior of the island. Knox's father died in 1661, but Knox himself remained a prisoner at large for over 19 years, supporting himself by knitting caps, lending out corn and rice, and hawking goods about the country. Though the rajah pressed him to enter his service, Knox resisted, and finally escaped to the Dutch settlement at Arippu on the north-west of the island. Reaching England in 1680, he entrusted the manuscript of this account to Robert Hooke, and enlisted in the East India Company, for further adventures in an already adventuresome life. These engravings include depictions of agricultural techniques, two native primates, customs and costumes and an execution being carried out by an elephant.
Author : A. M. Philalethes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110804655X
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV written by A. M. Philalethes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1817 book traces the history of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from the classical period to 1815.
Author : Robert Knox
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Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Account of the Captivity of Robert Knox and Other Englishmen, in the Island of Ceylon written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Knox
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Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book The Races of Men written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307776646
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
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.
Author : Joe Snader
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184444
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Caught between Worlds written by Joe Snader and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivity narrative has always been a literary genre associated with America. Joe Snader argues, however, that captivity narratives emerged much earlier in Britain, coinciding with European colonial expansion, the development of anthropology, and the rise of liberal political thought. Stories of Europeans held captive in the Middle East, America, Africa, and Southeast Asia appeared in the British press from the late sixteenth through the late eighteenth centuries, and captivity narratives were frequently featured during the early development of the novel. Until the mid-eighteenth century, British examples of the genre outpaced their American cousins in length, frequency of publication, attention to anthropological detail, and subjective complexity. Using both new and canonical texts, Snader shows that foreign captivity was a favorite topic in eighteenth-century Britain. An adaptable and expansive genre, these narratives used set plots and stereotypes originating in Mediterranean power struggles and relocated in a variety of settings, particularly eastern lands. The narratives' rhetorical strategies and cultural assumptions often grew out of centuries of religious strife and coincided with Europe's early modern military ascendancy. Caught Between Worlds presents a broad, rich, and flexible definition of the captivity narrative, placing the American strain in its proper place within the tradition as a whole. Snader, having assembled the first bibliography of British captivity narratives, analyzes both factual texts and a large body of fictional works, revealing the ways they helped define British identity and challenged Britons to rethink the place of their nation in the larger world.
Author : Robert Knox
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies written by Robert Knox and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Knox's book, 'An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies', is an important contemporary account of Sri Lankan life in the 17th century. Knox's direct and idiomatic language is influential to the development of the English novel, and his vivid descriptions of Sinhalese topography, economic and social life, and cultural characteristics provide a valuable source for the economic history and anthropology of Ceylon during this period. The book is divided into four parts, with the first three detailing the Kingdom of Kandy and the final part depicting Knox's escape from captivity. Knox portrays himself as a practical, self-sufficient, and resilient individual, similar to Defoe's shipwrecked mariner.
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Total Pages : 506 pages
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Download or read book The Atheneum, Or, Spirit of the English Magazines written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Frank
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639360271
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Crusoe written by Katherine Frank and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is January 1719 and Daniel Defoe, almost sixty, sits at a table, writing. He is troubled with gout and debt, but for now is preoccupied with a younger man on a barren shore – Robinson Crusoe, for which he will principally be remembered. Several miles south, an old man, Robert Knox, is bent over a heavy volume. It is Historical Relation, his account of being held captive on Ceylon, published forty years ago after he escaped and returned to England. It has long been out of print, but a copy perhaps sits on the desk of Daniel Defoe as he writes. Where did Crusoe come from? And what is the secret of his endurance? Crusoe explores the intertwined lives of two real men – Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox – and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. It is the biography of a book and its hero, the story of Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe.
Author : Robert Knox
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Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book An Historical Relation of Ceylon written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 694 pages
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Download or read book British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 694 pages
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Download or read book The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book The Spirit of the English Magazines written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 692 pages
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Download or read book The Ceylon Historical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir James Emerson Tennent
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Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon written by Sir James Emerson Tennent and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
