About For Books Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka Review

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No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. InElephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones where the island s 5,800 wild elephants congregate around ancient reservoirs; through cinnamon country with its Portuguese forts; to the Bible Belt of Buddhism; then up into Kandy, the country s eccentric, aristocratic Shangri-la. In the course of his journey, Gimlette meets farmers, war heroes, ancient tribesmen, world-class cricketers, terrorists, a former president, old planters, survivors of great massacres and perhaps some of their perpetrators. That s to say nothing of the island s beguiling fauna: elephants, crocodiles, snakes, storks, and the greatest concentration of leopards on Earth.Here is a land of extravagant beauty and profound devastation, a place capable of being at once heavenly and hellish all brought to vibrant, fascinating life here on the page."