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    The Teardrop Island: Following Victorian Footsteps Across Sri Lanka
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    The Teardrop Island: Following Victorian Footsteps Across Sri Lanka

    By Cherry Briggs

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    After discovering the travel writings of a Victorian explorer and writer, Cherry Briggs decides to retrace his footsteps across the island of Ceylon—now known as the recently war-torn, tsunami-effected Sri LankaMr Fernando led me into a dark room that was lined with book-cases and smelled of leather and damp. The polished, concrete floor of the library was covered with white jasmine flowers that had blown through the windows during the storm. He began to select from the shelves a collection of disintegrating books. ‘If you are going to read any of them, it should really be this one,’ he said as he passed me two thick volumes, embossed with gold lettering and spotted with damp. The work was simply called Ceylon and was written by an Irishman named Sir James Emerson Tennent, who had been sent to the island in 1845 by Her Majesty’s Government.The Teardrop Island follows in the footsteps of the eccentric Victorian James Emerson Tennent, along a route which takes Cherry to pilgrimage trails, into tea estates and rural regions inhabited by indigenous tribes, as well as through restricted areas of the former warzone, delving under the surface of the contemporary culture via cricket matches and fortune tellers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummersdale
    Release dateJan 1, 2015
    ISBN9780857659262
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    The Teardrop Island: Following Victorian Footsteps Across Sri Lanka
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    Cherry Briggs

    Cherry Briggs worked as a Biology teacher in Oxfordshire until the cold, grey skies got the better of her and she went in search of warmer climes. Being a keen cyclist she got on her bike and cycled around Asia until she finally settled in Sri Lanka. Much as she loved the island however, her feet soon became itchy and she now lives high up in the Andes in Bogota, Colombia.

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      The young author is to be congratulated on diligence and enterprise but not much else. An expat teacher in Sri Lanka she uses the device of following the route of a colonial administrator from the nineteenth century around the island to tell us about its state today. She has a clichéd but pleasant eye for description, quotes the odd passage from her Victorian era guide and in backpacker style tells us about her extended holiday.As an elementary guide to Sri Lanka it's OK. But it offers no insights, no confidence that we are reading a potentially original travel writer and no lasting memories.