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Two happy years in Ceylon — C. F. Gordon Cumming

Two happy years in Ceylon

C. F. Gordon Cumming

  • Travel
  • Book language: English
  • 776 pages

Two Happy Years in Ceylon is a travel book by C. F. Gordon Cumming. It recounts her stay on the island, with observations of its landscapes, plants, animals, and people. Listeners may enjoy its vivid portrait of nineteenth-century Ceylon.

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Contents

  1. TWO HAPPY YEARS IN CEYLON
  2. PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. INTRODUCTORY
  6. CHAPTER I MY FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE TROPICS
  7. CHAPTER II COLOMBO
  8. CHAPTER III COLOMBO
  9. CHAPTER IV THE CRUISE OF THE CASTLE JERMYN
  10. CHAPTER V THE CRUISE OF THE CASTLE JERMYN
  11. CHAPTER VI TO THE HILLS
  12. CHAPTER VII NUWARA ELIYA
  13. CHAPTER VIII ELEPHANTS
  14. CHAPTER IX KANDY
  15. CHAPTER X THE WORSHIPFUL TOOTH
  16. CHAPTER XI FROM KANDY TO ANURADHAPURA
  17. CHAPTER XII ANURADHAPURA
  18. CHAPTER XIII ANURADHAPURA AND MIHINTALE
  19. CHAPTER XIV RATNAPURA—GEMS
  20. CHAPTER XV BADULLA AND HAPUTALE
  21. CHAPTER XVI SOME PAGES FROM A BROTHER’S DIARY
  22. CHAPTER XVII BATTICALOA
  23. CHAPTER XVIII POLLANARUA
  24. CHAPTER XIX TRINCOMALEE—SAAMI ROCK
  25. CHAPTER XX TRINCOMALEE TO GALLE
  26. CHAPTER XXI SOUTHERN COAST
  27. CHAPTER XXII RETURN TO COLOMBO
  28. CHAPTER XXIII NATIVE POLICE
  29. CHAPTER XXIV IN THE PLANTING DISTRICTS
  30. CHAPTER XXV ASCENT OF ADAM’S PEAK

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