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Book Synopsis An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies by : Robert Knox
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 274 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.
Book Synopsis An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) by : Robert Knox
Download or read book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account by John Knox, the English sea captain in the service of the British East India Company. Knox and his father were driven ashore on Ceylon, now Sri Lanka in a storm in 1659 while on their way home from Fort St. George (now Madras). They were captured in the name of the King of Kandy near Mooduthora (Mutur), Trincomalee. Knox eventually escaped with one companion after nineteen years of captivity. This book is one of the earliest and most detailed European accounts of life on Ceylon.
Book Synopsis An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon by : Robert Knox
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:
Book Synopsis An Historical Relation of Ceylon by : Robert Knox
Download or read book An Historical Relation of Ceylon written by Robert Knox and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies by : Robert Knox
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.
Download or read book Islanded written by Sujit Sivasundaram and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.
Book Synopsis An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies by : Robert Knox
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.
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by : Bombay Natural History Society
Download or read book The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society written by Bombay Natural History Society and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nurturing Indonesia written by Hans Pols and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of the formation of the Indonesian medical profession reveals the relationship between medicine and decolonisation, and its importance to understanding Asian history.
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.
Book Synopsis An Account of the Island of Ceylon, Containing Its History, Geography, Natural History, with the Manners and Customs of Its Various Inhabitants by : Robert Percival
Download or read book An Account of the Island of Ceylon, Containing Its History, Geography, Natural History, with the Manners and Customs of Its Various Inhabitants written by Robert Percival and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Account of the Island of Ceylon, Containing Its History, Geography, Natural History, With the Manners and Customs of Its Various Inhabitants: To Which Is Added, the Journal of an Embassy to the Court of Candy; Illustrated by a Map and Charts From the Observations I then made, I am enabled to affirm that its retention in our hands must prove Of the greatest benefit to our East India trade, and our commerce in general; and is in this view a measure which must reflect the highest honour on the wisdom of his Majesty's Councils. From the period of my arrival with his Majesty's lgth regt. On the island Of Ceylon shortly after its capture, I endeavoured, during my few leisure moments from military duty, to Obtain as much useful information as an Officer in my situation had it in his power to collect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis America and the East by : Maggs Bros
Download or read book America and the East written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV by : A. M. Philalethes
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.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress by : Indian Science Congress Association
Download or read book Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress written by Indian Science Congress Association and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of John Locke by : John Locke
Download or read book The Works of John Locke written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Continuation of familiar letters. [Miscellaneous letters and pieces by : John Locke
Download or read book Continuation of familiar letters. [Miscellaneous letters and pieces written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes by : John Locke
Download or read book The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes written by John Locke and published by London : C. and R. Rivington. This book was released on 1824 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
