Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art Michael Coe

Michael Coe

Covers all 468 species of bird recoded in Sri Lanka

Italians-much like Sri Lankans- live at home through marriage

It is therefore fitting that Dominic Sansoni has joined Anjalendran as the photographer for the present volume

Christopher Dell shows how many myths share common patterns and traces how the human imagination

Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art Michael CoeJacob Gotfried Haafner (17541809) was one of the most popular European travel writers of the early nineteenth century, writing in the Romantic mode. A Dutch citizen, Haafner spent more than twenty years of his early life living outside of Europe, in India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Java, and South Africa. Books like his popular Travels in a Palanquin were translated into the major European languages, and his essays against the work of Christian missionaries