The ambivalent imperialist: a modern take on an Edwardian British adventurer in South Asia.(Woof in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904-1911)(Book review)

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Woolf in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904-1911 Christopher Ondaatje HarperCollins 326 pages, hardcover ISBN 0002007185

As I plunged into this book, they began flowing around me, but soon they came faster, and finally they whooshed past me like bright fish in a rapids, darting and weaving: my impressions of Sri Lanka, garnered a decade ago during a too-brief excursion. In Woolf in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904-1911, author Christopher Ondaatje writes of travelling south along the west coast of that island state ...

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