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Barker Adele Marie <1946-> |
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Not quite paradise : an American sojourn in Sri Lanka / / Adele Barker |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Boston, : Beacon Press, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnic conflict - Sri Lanka |
War and society - Sri Lanka |
Tsunamis - Sri Lanka |
Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 |
Teachers - Sri Lanka |
Sri Lanka Description and travel |
Sri Lanka Ethnic relations |
Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-2009 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Not Quite Paradise -- Part I -- Chapter 1: Going and Coming I -- Chapter 2: Student Life -- Chapter 3: Housekeeping -- Chapter 4: Insurrections in the Hills -- Chapter 5: Hot Curry -- Chapter 6: Rain -- Chapter 7: The War Next Door -- Chapter 8: Colombo -- Chapter 9: Colonialist Torpor -- Chapter 10: Life in a Different Key -- Chapter 11: Gihin Ennam -- Part II -- Chapter 12: When the Sea Came to the Land -- Chapter 13: Home -- Chapter 14: Up and Down the Mountain -- Chapter 15: The Story of a Wave -- Chapter 16: Early Warning System -- Chapter 17: Arugam Bay -- Chapter 18: Batti -- Chapter 19: The Road to Jaffna -- Chapter 20: In Jaffna -- Chapter 21: Reading the Classics -- Chapter 22: Leaving Jaffna -- Chapter 23: Going and Coming II -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments. |
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