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Tea Time with Terrorists: A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Sri Lanka's Civil War

By Meadows , Mark Stephen , Mark;Meadows

Book information

Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781593763695, 1593763697
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
3 MB (2977408 bytes)
Pages
305 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1983-2009;Sri LankaMark Stephen -- Travel -- Sri Lanka;Motorcycling -Motorcycling;Motorcycling--Sri Lanka;Travel;Histor

Description

Armed with a map, a motorcycle, an infectious sense of humor, and a dim understanding of Sri Lanka's war, author, artist, and adventurer Mark Stephen Meadows arrives in the country intending to have, as it were, afternoon tea with terrorists. Figuring that the first step to solving a problem is understanding it, he journeys north into the war zone, interviewing terrorists, generals, and heroin dealers along the way. He discovers an island of beauty and abundance ground down by three decades of war. As he travels north through Colombo, Kandy, and the damaged city of Jaffna, Meadows gives his ri.;Compromises -- Ahangama -- Colombo -- Kandy -- Sigiriya -- Aluvihara -- Vavuniya -- Kilinochchi -- Jaffna -- The road back -- Addenda.

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