Travel Writing

Two happy years in Ceylon

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Constance Gordon-Cumming, one of the great Victorian women travellers and a fine watercolourist, describes two years exploring Ceylon (Sri Lanka), its temples, ruins, forests and people. IMPLEMENTATION NOTE VERIFY→ PG #

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C. F. Gordon Cumming

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Added to BookMarket: October 6, 2026
First published: 1892
Genre: Travel Writing

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Farid N.4.0

The prose is dense in places but rewarding. Glad it was available as a proper ebook.

Oct 2026

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Hiro T.4.0

Read this one in a single sitting — the EPUB formatting is clean and it held up beautifully.

Oct 2026

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Ingrid S.4.0

Lovely to have this in the library rather than hunting down a scanned copy online.

Oct 2026