Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka

by John Gimlette

Book Overview

No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. As The New York Times once noted, "he writes with enormous wit, indignation, and a heightened sense of the absurd." Writing for both the adventurer and the armchair traveler, he has an eye for unusually telling detail, a sense of wonder, and compelling curiosity for the inside story. This time, he travels to Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Delving deep into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385351275
• ISBN13: 9780385351270
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.4"