The Resource Not quite paradise : an American sojourn in Sri Lanka, Adele Barker
Not quite paradise : an American sojourn in Sri Lanka, Adele Barker
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The item Not quite paradise : an American sojourn in Sri Lanka, Adele Barker represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cedar Rapids Public Library-Metro Library Network.
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- Summary
- Chronicles the author's travels in Sri Lanka, focusing on the differences between daily life there and in the United States, and the devastation suffered by the nation's people after the 2004 tsunami
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 303 p.
- Contents
-
- Going and coming I
- Student life
- Housekeeping
- Insurrections in the hills
- Hot curry
- Rain
- The war next door
- Colombo
- Colonialist torpor
- Life in a different key
- Gihin Ennam
- When the sea came to the land
- Home
- Up and down the mountain
- The story of a wave
- Early warning system
- Arugam Bay
- Batti
- The road to Jaffna
- In jaffna
- Reading the classics
- Leaving Jaffna
- Going and coming II
- Isbn
- 9780807001257
- Label
- Not quite paradise : an American sojourn in Sri Lanka
- Title
- Not quite paradise
- Title remainder
- an American sojourn in Sri Lanka
- Statement of responsibility
- Adele Barker
- Subject
-
- Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
- War and society -- Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka -- Description and travel
- Sri Lanka -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2009
- Teachers -- Sri Lanka -- Biography
- Tsunamis -- Sri Lanka
- Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations
- Barker, Adele Marie, 1946- -- Travel -- Sri Lanka
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Chronicles the author's travels in Sri Lanka, focusing on the differences between daily life there and in the United States, and the devastation suffered by the nation's people after the 2004 tsunami
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1946-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Barker, Adele Marie
- Dewey number
- 954.9303/2092
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- DS489
- LC item number
- .B26 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Barker, Adele Marie
- Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka
- Ethnic conflict
- War and society
- Sri Lanka
- Tsunamis
- Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
- Teachers
- Label
- Not quite paradise : an American sojourn in Sri Lanka, Adele Barker
- Contents
- Going and coming I -- Student life -- Housekeeping -- Insurrections in the hills -- Hot curry -- Rain -- The war next door -- Colombo -- Colonialist torpor -- Life in a different key -- Gihin Ennam -- When the sea came to the land -- Home -- Up and down the mountain -- The story of a wave -- Early warning system -- Arugam Bay -- Batti -- The road to Jaffna -- In jaffna -- Reading the classics -- Leaving Jaffna -- Going and coming II
- Control code
- ocn317623411
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 303 p.
- Isbn
- 9780807001257
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009013015
- Other physical details
- ill., map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)317623411
- Label
- Not quite paradise : an American sojourn in Sri Lanka, Adele Barker
- Contents
- Going and coming I -- Student life -- Housekeeping -- Insurrections in the hills -- Hot curry -- Rain -- The war next door -- Colombo -- Colonialist torpor -- Life in a different key -- Gihin Ennam -- When the sea came to the land -- Home -- Up and down the mountain -- The story of a wave -- Early warning system -- Arugam Bay -- Batti -- The road to Jaffna -- In jaffna -- Reading the classics -- Leaving Jaffna -- Going and coming II
- Control code
- ocn317623411
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 303 p.
- Isbn
- 9780807001257
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009013015
- Other physical details
- ill., map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)317623411
Subject
- Barker, Adele Marie, 1946- -- Travel -- Sri Lanka
- Ethnic conflict -- Sri Lanka
- Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
- Sri Lanka -- Description and travel
- Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations
- Sri Lanka -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2009
- Teachers -- Sri Lanka -- Biography
- Tsunamis -- Sri Lanka
- War and society -- Sri Lanka
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