Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka

406pp. 1st US edition (following publication in the UK). Quarter bound in cloth over paper-covered boards. Pictorial dust jacket, now in protective wrapper. Slightly cocked. Stamp on lower text block edge, else very nice copy. John Gimlette sees the world in a unique way. As The New York Times once noted, “he writes with enormous wit, indignation, and a heightened sense of the absurd.” Writing for both adventurers and armchair travellers, he has an eye for unusually telling detail, a sense of wonder, and compelling curiosity for the inside story. This time, he travels to Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Delving deep into the nation’s story, Gimlette provides us with an astonishing, multifaceted portrait of the island today