SPITTEL, R.L. Wild Ceylon. Ceylon, Colombo Book Centre, [1951].
8vo. Publisher's cream cloth, spine lettered in blue; in the original dust-wrapper (not price-clipped); pp. 189; with multiple leaves of plates after black and white photographs, including frontispiece; bumping along edges and corners of boards; spine of wrapper slightly sunned, with a few marks to boards; chipping to edges and corners of wrapper; a little light spotting here and there, with light even toning to paper-stock; a good copy.
Fourth edition. 'A great classic of the Ceylon jungle … This is a record which has a historical and ethnological value to an exceptional degree … It is the approach of a sensitive and observing mind, in which scholarship and science are legitimately subordinated to the musical undertones which sustain the writing from beginning to an end, thus making a fine jungle book because it is also a genuine artistic creation. The human touch is introduced in the revealing story of the last remnants of the pure Vedda race and no one who reads this book can say that he does not know the variegated and endless beauty of Ceylon's jungle trails' (inside front flap).
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