Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art nations and human rights

nations and human rights

Book is dedicated to describing one of the Hindu Bronze figurines from 11th century Sri Lanka

Panther is a novel about that familiar

(Winner of  the Gratiaen Prize - 2020)

Covers all 468 species of bird recoded in Sri Lanka

Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art nations and human rightsJacob 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