Christopher Ondaatje, long fascinated with Richard Burton and wishing to relive his 1856 African exploration, prepared for this journey by studying the expeditions of several Victorian travellers, for each had returned with part of the ...
A village in the jungle: This novel, set in Ceylon, follows the lives of a handful of villagers hacking out a fragile existence in a jungle where indiscriminate growth, indifferent fate and malevolent neighbours constantly threaten to ...
Leonard Woolf was sent to Ceylon in 1904 as a civil servant. In this text, Ondaatje revisits Woolf's former imperial haunts and considers his wide range of writings on the region.
Ondaatje follows the trail of Hemingway's two major African safaris and analyzes Hemingway's writings to uncover a startling amount of new material on this vitally important aspect of his life and work. Includes lavish illustrations.