Ceylon: An Account of the Island
Ceylon An Account of the Island
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This work is in the public domain. The author died in 1869; in Sri Lanka copyright lasts for the author's life plus 70 years, so the work has been free since 1940.
About this book
The great Victorian survey of the island by its Colonial Secretary: geography, geology, plants and animals, the ancient chronicles and kings, the Portuguese and Dutch periods, and the state of the country in the 1850s. Two volumes that later historians of Sri Lanka have quarried for a century and a half.
- Language of the book
- English
- Category
- History
- First published
- 1859
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