Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art (Winner of the Gratiaen Prize

(Winner of  the Gratiaen Prize - 2020)

Christopher Dell shows how many myths share common patterns and traces how the human imagination

who did almost all of the perspectives

Italians-much like Sri Lankans- live at home through marriage

Panther is a novel about that familiar

Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art (Winner of the Gratiaen PrizeJacob Gotfried Haafner (17541809) was one of the most popular European travel writers of the early nineteenth century, writing in the Romantic mode. A Dutch citizen, Haafner spent more than twenty years of his early life living outside of Europe, in India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Java, and South Africa. Books like his popular Travels in a Palanquin were translated into the major European languages, and his essays against the work of Christian missionaries