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Author : Mauny (Count de, of Ceylon.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Gardens of Taprobane written by Mauny (Count de, of Ceylon.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : de MAUNY (Count, of Ceylon.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Gardens of Taprobane ... Edited by Bernard Miall written by de MAUNY (Count, of Ceylon.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317805291
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka written by Robert Aldrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural encounter on the island. The book offers profiles of major figures in Sri Lankan culture and of homosexual visitors, both famous and infamous, to the island. It discusses the experiences of sojourners including the Victorian social reformer Edward Carpenter and the German naturalist Ernst Haeckel, such British and American writers as Paul Bowles and Arthur C. Clarke, and the Australian painter Donald Friend. It also pays particular attention to Lionel Wendt, one of the most important modernist photographers outside Europe. For these figures, an erotic appreciation of young men whom they encountered mixed with interest in Sinhalese art, Buddhist and Hindu spirituality, and the flora and fauna of the island. Their experiences influenced modern writing, art and dance. Cultural influences moved in both directions, however, and Sri Lankans also found inspiration from abroad. The book argues that homosexuals played a major role in the transmission of cultural influences from Sri Lanka to the rest of the world, and from the wider world to this Indian Ocean island. Providing an original analysis of gay cultures in Sri Lanka from Victorian encounters to the present day, this book is the first study of Sri Lanka as a site of gay travel. An excellent study of trans-national cultural exchange, sexuality and the relationships between them, it will be of interest to academics in the field of Asian Studies, Colonial History and Gay and Queer Studies.
Author : R. Tripp Evans
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538173964
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Being Furnished written by R. Tripp Evans and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the private world of four New England bachelors, men who transformed their homes - now all public museums - into personal artistic statements. Exploring the lives of four bachelor designers, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home invites readers into the private worlds they created. Spanning the Gilded to the Jazz Age, these fascinating interiors not only reflect the intimate lives of their owners – men whose personal stories have, until now, remained in the shadows – but they serve as monuments to the Queer shaping of the American home as we know it today. Meet Charles Leonard Pendleton, (1846-1904), the reclusive gambler who built one of the greatest furniture collections of his age, all for a house ultimately built on sand. Explore the aristocratic interiors of renowned interior decorator Ogden Codman, Jr. (1863-1951), whose ancestral home served as a laboratory for his enormously successful 1897 manifesto, The Decoration of Houses, even as it transmitted his forebears’ vices. Join the literary salon of writer Charles H. Gibson, Jr. (1874-1954), who made his Boston home a monument to personal ambition and his own, once heralded beauty – all while transforming himself into a campy caricature of his own “Boston Brahmin” class. And last, fall under the spell of Henry Davis Sleeper (1878-1934), the nationally recognized decorator who created his fifty-room seaside masterpiece, Beauport, for the love of the man next door. Fully illustrated with color plates and period photographs, this book pays tribute to Oscar Wilde’s “gospel of beauty,” a cause these men promoted in a dazzling range of styles. By turns poignant, outrageous, and inspiring, the stories of these “surprisingly domestic bachelors” (as the press dubbed them) reveal the complicated depths beneath their homes’ brilliant surfaces.
Author : Virginia Spencer Carr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743273508
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Paul Bowles written by Virginia Spencer Carr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Bowles, best known for his classic 1949 novel, The Sheltering Sky, is one of the most compelling yet elusive figures of twentieth-century American counterculture. In this definitive biography, Virginia Spencer Carr has captured Bowles in his many guises: gifted composer, expatriate novelist, and gay icon, to name only a few. Born in New York in 1910, Bowles' brilliance was evident from early childhood. His first artistic interest was music, which he studied with the composer Aaron Copland. Bowles wrote scores for films and countless plays, including pieces by Tennessee Williams and Orson Welles. Over the course of his life, his intellectual pursuits led him around the world. He cultivated a circle of artistic friends that included Gertrude Stein, W.H. Auden, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs, Stephen Spender, and Carson McCullers. Just as fascinating for his flamboyant personality as for his literary success, Bowles' leftist politics and experimentation with drugs make him an ever-controversial character. Carr delves into Bowles' unconventional marriage to Jane Auer and his self-exile in Morocco. Close friends with him before his death in 1999, Carr's first-hand knowledge of Bowles is undeniable. This book encompasses her personal experiences plus ten years of research and interviews with some two hundred of Bowles' acquaintances. Virginia Spencer Carr has written a riveting biography that tells not only the story of Paul Bowles' literary genius, but also of a crucial period of redefinition in American culture. Carr is simultaneously entertaining and precise, delivering a wealth of information on one of the most mythologized figures of mid-century literature.
Author : C. Brooke Elliott
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120611351
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Real Ceylon written by C. Brooke Elliott and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1995 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684197367
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book David Balfour written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The further adventures of David Balfour in which he continues his friendship with Alan Breck Stewart and support of the Scottish highlanders' cause, travels abroad to complete his education, and finds romance.
Author : Carl Muller
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181588
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Colombo written by Carl Muller and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colombo is in the throes of an explosion. Its face changes continuously, its vices are legion, its future as yet obscure and its paths speak of sunlight as well as of shadow.-' Carl Muller begins his quasi-fictional portrait of this beautiful, war-torn city by describing the great battles fought over it by European colonizers-. In AD 1505, a Portuguese fleet blown off-course took shelter in Galle, overthrew the local kings, fortified Colombo and decided to stay. The Dutch came along, ousted the Portuguese, made Colombo their capital and ruled till the British arrived and sent them packing. Muller intersperses the tales of the past into descriptions of the battles that are being fought in Colombo today"political battles in which vested interests play a major role as well as battles fought on the individual level in the struggle to survive: young women and children turning to prostitution to earn an extra buck, people begging in the streets to make ends meet, unemployed young men turning to crime in frustration, students demonstrating against atrocities, lovers pining for nightfall in order to push away loneliness if only for a few moments... Written in Muller's lucid style, Colombo: A Novel is a chronicle of a city's trials and triumphs.
Author : Kim Inglis
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290663X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Cool Hotels written by Kim Inglis and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 500 beautiful photographs, Cool Hotels showcases the best hotels in India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. Be it a rustic retreat or a five-star, super-deluxe resort that can hold its own globally, all are at the cutting-edge of the new wave of hotel design and management. Each property has been hand-picked according to a set of criteria that includes a strong design aesthetic, architectural integrity, a commitment to service and a sense of individuality. A million miles away from cookie-cutter approach of chain hotels. Many of the properties have never been featured in guides before and many are just recently opened. Cool Hotels is the first in a series of hotel guides focusing on Asia. Ultimately these will be the definitive guides exclusively showcasing the best of Asia's unique places to stay.
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Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Orientalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matt Cook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350143731
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Locating Queer Histories written by Matt Cook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history. The chapters cover a broad range of themes from migration, movement and multiculturalism; the distinctive queer social and political scenes of different cities; and the ways in which places have been reimagined through locally led community history projects. The book challenges traditional LGBTQ histories which have tended to conceive of queer experience in the UK as a comprising a homogeneous, national narrative. Edited by leading historians, the book foregrounds the voices of LGBTQ-identified people by looking at a range of letters, diaries, TV interviews and oral testimonies. It provides a unique and fascinating account of queer experiences in Britain and how they have been shaped through different localities.
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Orientalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Romesh Gunesekera
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408825678
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Prisoner of Paradise written by Romesh Gunesekera and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle at their grand plantation house. Under the surface of this beautiful island paradise, poised between India and Africa, there is unease, and Lucy cannot help but feel discomfited by the restrictions she sees around her, and by the strangely attractive Don Lambodar, a young translator from Ceylon. It is 1825: the age of slavery is coming to its messy end, and word is lapping against the shores of the island of a charismatic new Indian leader who will shine the light of liberty. For Lucy, for Don, for everyone on the island, a devastating storm is coming...
Author : Adam Nathaniel Furman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000601080
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Queer Spaces written by Adam Nathaniel Furman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An independent bookshop in Glasgow. An ice cream parlour in Havana, where strawberry is the queerest choice. A cathedral in ruins in Managua, occupied by the underground LGBTQIA+ community. Queer people have always found ways to exist and be together, and there will always be a need for queer spaces. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell have gathered together a community of contributors to share stories of spaces that range from the educational to the institutional to the re-appropriated, and many more besides. With historic, contemporary and speculative examples from around the world, Queer Spaces recognises LGBTQIA+ life past and present as strong, vibrant, vigorous, and worthy of its own place in history. Looking forward, it suggests visions of what form these spaces may take in the future to continue uplifting queer lives. Featured spaces include: Black Lesbian and Gay Centre, London Category Is Books, Glasgow Christopher Street, New York Coppelia, Havana New Sazae, Tokyo ONE Institute for Homophile Studies, Los Angeles Pop-Up spaces, Dhaka Queer House Party, Online Santiago Apóstol Cathedral, Managua Trans Memory Archive, Buenos Aires Victorian Pride Centre, Melbourne
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Total Pages : 796 pages
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Download or read book The Literary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Hoare
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612193609
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Sea Inside written by Philip Hoare and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yearlong adventure through the world’s oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The Whale In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain’s Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles—like the migration patterns of whales—Hoare explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand. As Hoare brilliantly weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable people as well as the dolphins, whales, and other creatures above and below the water (even one species formerly believed to be extinct). Echoing the fine tradition of W. G. Sebald, but in a voice all Hoare’s own, The Sea Inside is bursting with an endless series of delights and revelations from the ever-changing sea.
Author : Chris Bilham
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473896517
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Sailors Behind the Medals written by Chris Bilham and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three riveting true stories of the heroic acts that earned WWII Royal Navy sailors their awards for gallantry.Includes photos. The story of the Royal Navy in the Second World War is an epic, consisting of both dramatic battles such as the River Plate and Matapan, and drawn-out campaigns such as the escort of convoys to Malta and northern Russia. Sailors Behind the Medals examines the careers of twenty-three sailors whose part in these actions resulted in the award of their medals. The author illustrates a cross-section of the wartime navy: long-service regulars, volunteers, recalled veterans of the Great War, Hostilities Only ratings. They served on nearly every kind of warship and in all the main theaters of the war, and their individual acts of gallantry under extreme conditions make for inspiring reading. Also included is an examination of the medals that were awarded for gallantry.
