Elephant Complex, John Gimlette hong kong from the glorious Jill Mansell

from the glorious Jill Mansell

a couturier whose head is an enormous pincushion

in a midlife crisis

At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead

This book offers a prismatic view of the moment when much of the modern world was first sketched out

Elephant Complex, John Gimlette hong kong from the glorious Jill MansellEveryone has wanted a piece of paradise. Sri Lanka is a small island with a long, violent and enthralling history. Home to thousands of wild elephants, this is a place where natural beauty has endured, indifferent to human tragedy. Journeying through its many regions some haunted by war, many rarely seen by our eyes award winning travel writer John Gimlette interviews ex presidents and cricketers, tea planters and terrorists, negotiating the complex